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Bore Us the Spider
The Spider Crater appears to crawl out of Western Australia's past as a shattering reminder of cosmic impacts, seen by NASA's Terra satellite.
The arid landscape of Australia's Kimberly Region sports varying shades of crimson, and a blue-black river meanders near the bottom of the image. Dots of red along the river indicate lush but intermittent areas of vegetation. The "spider" appears white in the center of the image from sunlight on the ridges that form its legs.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS Geologists found shatter cones cone-shaped, grooved rocks left in craters by meteor or asteroid impacts as well as highly deformed layers of sedimentary rock that provide evidence of extraterrestrial impact. The Spider Crater also has areas where the ground was pushed upwards within the 8 by 7 mile (13 by 11 kilometer) depression left by the prehistoric event. If estimates are correct, the crater formed sometime between 900 and 600 million years ago when Earth was undergoing a series of global ice ages that gave its nickname "Snowball Earth."
space.com - IoDspider crater on GEC: (2 examples)
Visible Craters by xopher
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