On a quiet summer morning in Siberia on June 30, 1908, a tremendous explosion ripped through the remote Tunguska region, leveling an estimated 80 million trees across an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers. The blast was so powerful that it registered on seismic instruments thousands of miles away, and its shockwave circled the …
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Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona
Winslow, Arizona is the home to a gigantic hole in the earth called Meteor Crater. This hole is so big it could fit downtown San Francisco in it. Here are a couple photos that I took with different camera equipment. The second photo I had to stitch multiple photos together to fit the whole crater …
Holsinger Meteorite
The Holsinger Meteorite stands as a vivid symbol of the interconnectedness between Earth’s geological narrative and the cosmic events shaping our solar system. Unearthed in 1911 from Arizona’s renowned Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, this formidable 639-kilogram specimen highlights the extraterrestrial nature of one of the planet’s most intact impact craters. It is named in …