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Satellites: NOAA-15
and NOAA-17,
part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar
Orbiting satellites
Two meteor impact craters in Canada
One of the craters is just to the right of the very
center of this image. The other crater is near the upper left, just about to be
covered by a cloud bank.
These impact craters have the characteristic circular shapes surrounding a
central higher mound.
While we've all seen such shapes when we've thrown stones down in the mud, the
physics of the formation of such craters is actually very complicated.
As such craters weather over the ages--as these have--they typically reveal
themselves with their tell-tale circular lakes.
Click on the image below for a higher-resolution (~100k) version.