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Ries Crater, Germany
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Ries Crater, Germany

Germany’s Ries Crater (or Nördlinger Ries) is not easily discerned in space-based images. The crater’s existence was probably just as subtle to the medieval Europeans who established a settlement inside it and unknowingly matched their 1-kilometer- (0.6-mile-) wide city to the likely diameter of the meteorite that formed the crater.

Published Mar 9, 2008

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Wolfe Creek Crater
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Wolfe Creek Crater

Wolfe Creek Crater is the second largest crater in the world from which meteorite fragments have been collected. Because of its excellent preservation, the crater clearly shows the classic features that result from a large meteorite striking the Earth.

Published Feb 24, 2008

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Kebira Crater
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Kebira Crater

Published Mar 8, 2006

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Lonar Crater, India
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Lonar Crater, India

India’s Lonar Crater began causing confusion soon after it was identified. Lonar Crater sits inside the Deccan Plateau—a massive plain of volcanic basalt rock leftover from eruptions some 65 million years ago. Its location in this basalt field suggested to some geologists that it was a volcanic crater. Today, however, Lonar Crater is understood to result from a meteorite impact that occurred between 35,000 and 50,000 years ago.

Published Apr 13, 2008

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Tenoumer Crater, Mauritania
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Tenoumer Crater, Mauritania

Deep in the Sahara Desert lies a crater. Nearly a perfect circle, it is 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles) wide, and sports a rim 100 meters (330 feet) high. Modern geologists long debated what caused this crater, some of them favoring a volcano. But closer examination of the structure revealed that the crater’s hardened “lava” was actually rock that had melted from a meteorite impact.

Published Feb 17, 2008

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Iturralde Crater, Bolivia
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Iturralde Crater, Bolivia

Published Sep 10, 2002

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Goat Paddock Crater
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Goat Paddock Crater

Acquired April 30, 2010, this natural-color image shows Goat Paddock Crater in northwestern Australia. The slightly elliptical crater spans roughly 5 kilometers.

Published May 23, 2010

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Deriba Caldera, Sudan
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Deriba Caldera, Sudan

In this astronaut photograph, a pair of jewel-toned lakes sit in the Deriba Caldera on top of Mount Marra Volcano in western Sudan. Shadows throw the steep southern wall of the outer crater into sharp relief.

Published Dec 8, 2008

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Pingualuit Crater, Canada
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Pingualuit Crater, Canada

Pingualuit Crater holds a lake about 267 meters (876 feet) deep. Because this lake has no connection to any other water body, inflows from other lakes cannot contaminate Pingualuit’s sediments.

Published Feb 10, 2008

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Volcanic Activity at Kilauea
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Volcanic Activity at Kilauea

Acquired December 11, 2009, these true-color images show a wide-area and two close-up views of plumes from Kilauea, including plumes from Halema‘uma‘u and Pu‘u O‘o Craters.

Published Dec 16, 2009

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