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Israel’s Heart-Shaped Crater

At 500 meters deep, the Makhtesh Ramon is the world’s largest erosion crater.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published April 3, 2020
Data acquired February 14, 2020

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI