Blast From the Past: Vredefort Crater

The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure shows some of the most extreme deformation conditions known on Earth.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published July 2, 2025
Data acquired June 27, 2018

Source:

Landsat 8 > OLI

Collection:

Impact Craters