Start Date: End Date: Published Date Data Date
Data acquired September 6, 2007 2700 x 2700 4 MB - JPEG
Data acquired September 6, 2007 5112 x 4920 46 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired September 6, 2007 1350 x 1350 874 KB - JPEG
Data acquired September 6, 2007 2556 x 2460 13 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired September 6, 2007 311 KB - KML/KMZ
Data acquired September 6, 2007 JPEG
Data acquired September 6, 2007 540 x 735 JPEG
342 x 228 JPEG
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.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Michon Scott.
Published March 9, 2008 Data acquired September 6, 2007