Visit these Earth impact craters, even from the comfort of your own home...
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2022-08-19T15:06:59Z
Visit these Earth impact craters, even from the comfort of your own home, Planet Earth holds some of the strangest, natural tourist destinations in the solar system. Earth is perpetually bombarded with debris from outer space. Luckily for us, most of it burns up during entry through our...
1. BARRINGER CRATER, – Location: Arizona, U.S – Diameter: 0.8 miles (1,300 meters) – Depth: 570 feet (174 meters) – Age: 50,000 years Barringer Crater, also known as Meteor Crater, formed relatively recently (geologically speaking) just 50,000 years ago when a large iron meteor measuring 98-feet...
2. LONAR CRATER, – Location: Maharashtra, India – Diameter: 6,000 feet (1,830 meters) – Depth: 500 feet (150 meters) – Age: 35,000 to 50,000 years Nestled inside the Deccan Plateau in Southern India, lies Lonar Crater, a large meteorite crater that has baffled scientists since it was identified...
3. WOLFE CREEK CRATER, – Location: Western Australia – Diameter: 2890 ft (880 meters) – Depth: 196 ft (60 meters) – Age: 120,000 to 300,000 years Wolfe Creek Crater is positioned on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert in the Wolfe Creek Crater National Park, northern Western Australia. According...
4. GOSSES BLUFF (TNORALA), – Location: Northern Territory, Australia – Diameter: Originally around 13.6 miles (22 km), now 2.7 miles (4.5 km) – Depth: Originally 3 miles (5 km) – Age: 142 million years Australia is home to some of the most impressive impact craters in the world, so it comes as no...
5. PINGUALUIT CRATER, – Location: Pingualuit National Park, Quebec, Canada – Diameter: 2.1 miles (3.4 km) – Depth: 876 feet (267 meters) – Age: 1.4 million years The Pingualuit National Park is situated in the heart of the Ungava plateau and is home to the impressive Pingualuit crater. Under the...
6. KAALI CRATER FIELD, – Location: Kaali, Estonia – Diameter: Largest crater 360 ft (110 meters) – Depth: Largest crater 72 ft (22 meters) – Age: Estimates ranging from 8400 to 2420 years old Why visit one crater when you can visit nine? Located on Saaremaa, Estonia's largest island, the Kaali...
7. NÖRDLINGER RIES, – Location: Western Bavaria, Germany – Diameter: 16 miles (26 km) – Depth: 660 feet (200 meters) – Age: 15 million years Remarkably, the Ries crater contains a town within its inner ring, a town known as Nördlingen, according to the Planetary Science Institute. The full impact...
8. TSWAING CRATER, – Location: Gauteng, South Africa – Diameter: 0.8 miles (1.4 km) – Depth: 650 feet (200 meters) – Age: 220,000 years Approximately 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Pretoria, within the area of the City of Tshwane, is the Tswaing meteorite crater — originally known as Pretoria...
9. TENOUMER CRATER, – Location: Mauritania – Diameter: 1.2 miles (1.9 km) – Depth: 330 feet (100 meters) – Age: 10,000 to 30,000 years Deep in the Sahara Desert is a near-perfect circular crater called Tenoumer. According to NASA Earth Observatory, the origins of the crater had long been debated...
10. ROTER KAMM CRATER, – Location: Tsau ǁKhaeb National Park, southwest Namibia – Diameter: 1.5 miles (2.5 km) – Depth: 426 feet (130 meters) – Age: 5 million years Amid the rusty-red dunes of the Namib Desert in southwest Namibia is a crater that looks like it'd be right at home on Mars....

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