Meteorite crater. Aerial view of the Wolf Creek meteorite crater on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert,Western Australia. The crater was formed when a meteorite weighing thousands of tonnes collided with the Earth between 1-2 million years ago,in the Pleistocene period. It exploded with the force of an atomic bomb,producing a crater with a diameter of 853 metres. The shape of the crater (a near perfect circle) is well preserved,as only very slow weathering processes occur in arid environments | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Edmaier, Bernhard |
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