Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan - related image preview

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Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan

The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published February 27, 2022
Data acquired October 8, 2021

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI