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Impact crater on Mercury (Caloris Basin). Credit: NASA/Messenger
Impact crater on Mercury (Caloris Basin). Credit: NASA/Messenger
Barringer Meteor Crater in northern Arizona near Winslow is nearly ¾ miles across and is 570 ft deep. It was created 50,000 years ago by an Nickel-Iron meteorite 50
yards across and traveling approx. 30,000 mi/hr. Credit: Shane Torgerson
Manicouagen Reservoir in Quebec, Canada fills the remnants of a 60 mile wide crater created 214 million years ago by the impact of a 3 mile wide asteroid. Credit: NASA
Chicxulub Crater” located just off the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech
“Extinction”, Credit: Joe Tucciarone
Two examples of “rayed” lunar craters. Each is nearly 100 miles across. Credit: NASA
Tycho Copernicus
