Chicxulub radar topography

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03379

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https://dkwiki.dk/b/e752

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Wikimedia Commons

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beskrivelse:

This shaded relief image of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula show a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretatious-Tertiary Extinction, the event approximately 66 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then on Earth.

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Public domain