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On June 30, 1908, an incoming fireball exploded kilometers above Earth’s surface, scorching and toppling large numbers of trees.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Damaged tree photograph from the 1929 Leonid Kulik expedition. Epicenter and trajectory estimates from Longo, G. et al. 2007. Story by Adam Voiland.
Published June 30, 2025 Data acquired July 6, 2024