Blast From the Past: Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan

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

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Blast From the Past: Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan.

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

Published July 3, 2025
Data acquired October 8, 2021