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Blast from the Past: Deciphering India’s Luna Crater
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A round depression in the salty plains of the Kutch Basin reveals telltale signs of a prehistoric meteorite impact.

Jul 4, 2025
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Blast From the Past: Vredefort Crater
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The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure shows some of the most extreme deformation conditions known on Earth.

Jul 1, 2025
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An Impact Crater Hiding in Plain Sight
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Much of the Goyder impact structure has eroded away, but there are remnants in Australia’s Northern Territory.

May 22, 2025
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An Asteroid’s Bite in an Australian Mountain Range
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The asteroid that smashed into northern Australia and caused the Amelia Creek impact structure transformed mountain ridges in the blast…

Mar 19, 2025
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Ksudach’s Nested Calderas and Craters
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The volcano, located on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, displays numerous depressions that collect meltwater during the warmer months of the year.

Jan 4, 2025
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The Many Facets of Söderfjärden
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An impact crater in western Finland is a bucolic setting for agriculture and migratory birds—and its geometric shape resembles that…

Jan 1, 2025
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Deciphering India’s Luna Crater
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New analysis of a round depression in the salty plains of the Kutch Basin revealed telltale signs of a prehistoric…

Apr 21, 2024
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Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan
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The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China.

Feb 26, 2022
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A Modern Lake in an Ancient Crater
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Famously visible from space, ring-shaped Manicouagan Lake was built at the dawn of the Space Age when Canada dammed a…

Feb 3, 2022
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