Impact Crater

Flight 93 impact crater with debris, taken early in the investigation. The investigators at top of image provide scale.

S66-44887 (1 Aug. 1966) --- Single panel from micrometeorite package showing classic hypervelocity impact by micrometeorite particle. Crater is similar to that produced artificially on Earth and by particle imp More

Description: (1976) During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or More

Range : 5 million miles (8.025 million kilometers) This is a morning shot of Ganymede, largest of Jupiter's 13 satellites. It's slightly larger than Mercury with a density about twice that of water. It's be More

Range : 5 million miles (8.025 million kilometers) This is a morning shot of Ganymede, largest of Jupiter's 13 satellites. It's slightly larger than Mercury with a density about twice that of water. It's be More

Gullies eroded into the wall of a meteor impact crater in Noachis Terra. This high resolution view (top left) from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) shows channels and associated aprons o More

P-29522BW Range: 369,000 kilometers (229,000 miles) This is the highest-resolution picture of Titania returned by Voyager 2. The picture is a composite of two images taken through the clear-filter of Voyager's More

P-29521 BW Range: 557,000 kilometers ( 346, 000 miles) The southern hemisphere of Umbriel displays heavy cratering in this Voyager 2 image. This frame, taken through the clear-filter of Voyager's narrow-angle c More

P-29512 BW Range: 36,000 kilometers (22,000 miles) Miranda, innermost of Uranus' large satellites, is seen at close range as part of a Voyager 2 high-resolution mosaicking sequence. This clear-filter, narrow-an More

Range : 40,000 km (24,8000 mi.) This picture of Triton is a mosaic of the highest resolution images taken by Voyager 2. The mosaic is superimposed on the lower-resolution mapping images taken about 2 hours ea More

P-34717 Range: 80,000 kilometers (50,000 miles) This image taken by Voyager 2 of Neptune's largest satellite, Triton, shows an area in the northern hemisphere. The Sun is just above the horizon, so features cas More

NASA's Magellan image mosaic shows the largest impact crater known to exist on Venus at this point in the Magellan mission. The crater is located north of Aphrodite Terra and east of Eistla Regio and was imaged More

This image mosaic from NASA Magellan spacecraft shows the impact crater Golubkina. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00236 NASA/JPL

This image mosaic from NASA Magellan spacecraft is of an impact crater located in Guinevere Planitia on Venus. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00238 NASA/JPL

STS077-737-096 (19-29 May 1996) --- The Palmer River emerging from the left corner of the photograph separates the Gardener Range to the right from the James Ranges on the left. To the bottom and off the photo More

NASA' sMagellan imaged this multiple-floored, irregular impact crater at latitude 16.4 degrees north, longitude 352.1 degrees east, during orbits 481 and 482 on 27 September 1990. This crater, about 9.2 kilomet More

During orbits 423 through 424 on 22 September 1990, NASA's Magellan imaged this impact crater that is located at latitude 10.7 degrees north and longitude 340.7 degrees east. This crater is shown as a represent More

This space radar image shows the Roter Kamm impact crater in southwest Namibia. The crater rim is seen in the lower center of the image as a radar-bright, circular feature. Geologists believe the crater was for More

This Magellan image, which is 50 kilometers (31 miles) in width and 80 kilometers (50 miles) in length, is centered at 11.9 degrees latitude, 352 degrees longitude in the eastern Navka Region of Venus. The crat More

This Magellan image is centered at 74.6 degrees north latitude and 177.3 east longitude, in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. The image is approximately 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide at the base and More

Crater Isabella is seen in this radar image from NASA Magellan spacecraft. The second largest impact crater on Venus, the crater is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain, Isabella of Castile. NASA/JPL

A mixture of terrains studded with a large impact crater is shown in this view of the Uruk Sulcus region of Jupiter moon Ganymede taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft during its first flyby of the planet-sized moon More

On June 27, 1996, during Galileo first orbit around Jupiter, a newly discovered impact crater could be seen just right of the center of this image of Jupiter moon Europa returned by NASA Galileo spacecraft came More

MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Topographic Profile of Impact Crater NASA/JPL/GSFC

This image, taken on September 7, 1996 by NASA Galileo orbiter, shows two views of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter ice-covered satellite, Europa. The left image shows the approximate natural color appearance More

In this "family portrait," the four Galilean Satellites are shown to scale. These four largest moons of Jupiter shown in increasing distance from Jupiter are (left to right) Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. More

NASA Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth moon on December 7, 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. The distinct bright ray crater at the bottom of the image is the Tycho impact basin More

During its examination of Mars, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have More

Detail of an Impact Crater, Acidalia Planitia NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This image taken by NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a classic example of a Martian impact crater with a central peak. Central peaks are common in large, fresh craters on both Mars and the Moon. NASA/JPL/Ariz More

Mahmuydiyah, Iraq (Nov. 16, 2004) A Seabee assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four (NMCB-4), Kalsu Detachment, operates a fork life as it pushes large pieces of sheet metal over an impact crater as More

Mahmuydiyah, Iraq (Nov. 16, 2004) A Seabee assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four (NMCB-4), Kalsu Detachment, operates a fork life as it pushes large pieces of sheet metal over an impact crater as More

Impact Crater with Ejecta Blanket NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI

Impact Crater Filled With Layered Deposits NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona

Materials excavated during formation of this ~450 m diameter impact crater have an unusual two-toned character, likely a reflection of heterogeneity in the target materials. This crater occurs in Balmer Basin. More

NASA Dawn spacecraft obtained this false-color image right of an impact crater in asteroid Vesta equatorial region with its framing camera on July 25, 2011. The view on the left is from the camera clear filter. More

This anaglyph image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows the topography of the mountain-central complex in asteroid Vesta south polar region. You need 3D glasses to view this image. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Mercury Globe: 0°N, 90°E NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows Caparronia crater on asteroid Vesta, an unusually shaped, irregular rim that is sharp and fresh in some areas and more rounded and degraded in others. NASA/JPL-Caltech More

This image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spans from wall to wall across the center area of an impact crater. From what we see, a lot has happened to modify the appearance of the crater since it w More

This image shows lava crumpled against the upstream side of an impact crater as seen by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was planned to search for gully activity in the Northern Hemisphere. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

An impact crater in Isidis Planitia observed for a fifth time by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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On Earth, geologists can dig holes and pull up core samples to find out what lies beneath the surface. On Mars, geologists cannot dig holes very easily themselves, but a process has been occurring for billions More

This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a new impact site originally detected by the Context Camera onboard MRO. The crater is on a dusty slope, which also has several dark slope streaks due to d More

This image was acquired to take a closer look at a circular feature that might be an impact structure on the South Polar layered deposits. Measuring the sizes and frequency of impact craters provides a constra More