An Asteroid’s Bite in an Australian Mountain Range

The asteroid that smashed into northern Australia and caused the Amelia Creek impact structure transformed mountain ridges in the blast zone.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story An Asteroid’s Bite in an Australian Mountain Range.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and using topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published March 20, 2025
Data acquired February 3, 2025