Start Date: End Date: Published Date Data Date
Data acquired June 29, 2013 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired June 29, 2013 6000 x 6000 7 MB - JPEG
Data acquired June 29, 2013 83 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired June 29, 2013 29 KB - KML/KMZ
Data acquired June 29, 2013 JPEG
Two asteroids crashed into Earth in the Carboniferous Period, leaving this distinctive pair of craters in northwestern Quebec.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the USGS Earth Explorer. Caption by Adam Voiland. Congratulations to Allen Pope (NSIDC), D Arseneault, and Lachezar Filchev for coming close to solving the puzzler and for providing interesting background information about the area.
Published November 23, 2013 Data acquired June 29, 2013