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Impact crater on Mercury ( Caloris Basin). Credit: NASA/Messenger

Impact crater on Mercury ( Caloris Basin). Credit: NASA/Messenger.

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Impact crater on Mercury ( Caloris Basin). Credit: NASA/Messenger

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  1. Impact crater on Mercury (Caloris Basin). Credit: NASA/Messenger

  2. Barringer Meteor Crater in northern Arizona near Winslow is nearly ¾ miles across and is 570 ft deep. It was created 50,000 years ago by an Nickel-Iron meteorite 50 yards across and traveling approx. 30,000 mi/hr.Credit: Shane Torgerson

  3. ManicouagenReservoir in Quebec, Canada fills the remnants of a 60 mile wide crater created 214 million years ago by the impact of a 3 mile wide asteroid.Credit: NASA

  4. ChicxulubCrater” located just off the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech

  5. “Extinction”, Credit: Joe Tucciarone

  6. Tycho Copernicus Two examples of “rayed” lunar craters.Each is nearly 100 miles across. Credit: NASA

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