impact craters
Jupiter’s Moon Callisto
With 67 confirmed satellites, Jupiter has the largest system of moons in the Solar System. The greatest of these are…
9 years ago
Amazing Impact Crater Where a Triple Asteroid Smashed into Mars
At first glance, you many not guess that this feature on Mars is an impact crater. The reason it looks…
10 years ago
Citizen Scientists Hunt for Impact Craters in Persia
Citizen scientists have discovered planets beyond our Solar System and established morphological classifications for thousands of galaxies (e.g., the Planet Hunters and…
11 years ago
Oldest Impact Crater on Earth Discovered in Greenland
With shifting continents, rain, and wind, finding traces of ancient impact craters on Earth has been, literally, astronomically low. Now,…
13 years ago
Impact in Latvia Creates 20-Meter Crater
[/caption] A possible meteorite fall near in northern Latvia on Sunday left a crater approximately 20 meters (66 feet) in…
15 years ago