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Luizi Crater, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Luizi Crater, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Deep in the Congo, the Luizi Crater was uncovered though a combination of satellite images and field surveys.

Published Jun 24, 2012

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Spider Crater, Western Australia
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Spider Crater, Western Australia

Spider Crater rests in a depression some 13 by 11 kilometers (8 by 7 miles) across. Meteorite craters often have central areas of uplift, and Spider Crater fits this pattern. Spider Crater sits in a depression and has a central uplift area characteristic of impact craters, it shows extreme differences in erosion, giving it a unique appearance.

Published Mar 30, 2008

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Spider Crater Close-up
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Spider Crater Close-up

Published Apr 20, 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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Serra da Cangalha Crater, Brazil
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Serra da Cangalha Crater, Brazil

Roughly 220 million years ago, geologists estimate, a meteorite struck Earth here. Despite its age, Serra da Cangalha remains Brazil’s best-preserved impact crater, resting upon largely undisturbed sediments laid down some 300 million years ago.

Published Mar 16, 2008

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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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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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Vredefort Crater
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Vredefort Crater

The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure shows some of the most extreme deformation conditions known on Earth.

Published Sep 1, 2018

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Ouarkziz Impact Crater, Algeria
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Ouarkziz Impact Crater, Algeria

The crater was formed by a meteor impact less than 70 million years ago, during the “Age of Dinosaurs.”

Published May 7, 2012

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Piccaninny Impact Structure, Western Australia
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Piccaninny Impact Structure, Western Australia

Astronauts capture the first confirmed image of the structure taken from the International Space Station.

Published Mar 4, 2013

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