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An Asteroid’s Bite in an Australian Mountain Range
Published March 20, 2025
The asteroid that smashed into northern Australia and caused the Amelia Creek impact structure transformed mountain ridges in the blast zone.
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Ksudach’s Nested Calderas and Craters
Published January 5, 2025
The volcano, located on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, displays numerous depressions that collect meltwater during the warmer months of the year.
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The Many Facets of Söderfjärden
Published January 2, 2025
An impact crater in western Finland is a bucolic setting for agriculture and migratory birds—and its geometric shape resembles that of craters on other planets and moons.
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Deciphering India’s Luna Crater
Published April 22, 2024
New analysis of a round depression in the salty plains of the Kutch Basin revealed telltale signs of a prehistoric meteorite impact.
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Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan
Published February 27, 2022
The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China.
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A Modern Lake in an Ancient Crater
Published February 4, 2022
Famously visible from space, ring-shaped Manicouagan Lake was built at the dawn of the Space Age when Canada dammed a river to flood a Triassic-aged impact crater.
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Sudbury Impact Structure
Published September 20, 2021
Few craters are as large, or as old, as this impact structure in southeastern Ontario, Canada.
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Sweden’s Siljan Ring
Published July 21, 2021
The idyllic region of Dalarna County is the site of an ancient, powerful collision.
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Violent Formation for Mistastin Lake
Published June 30, 2021
The lake covers part of a crater where an asteroid once slammed into Labrador, Canada.
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Russia’s Crater of Diamonds
Published June 7, 2021
Popigai is one of the largest and most well-preserved impact craters on Earth.
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Arizona’s Meteor Crater
Published May 31, 2021
The “young” and well-preserved crater helps scientists understand cratering processes on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
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The Red Crest
Published February 18, 2021
The Namib Desert bears a scar from a meteorite impact.
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