Yucatan chix crater

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NASA/JPL-Caltech, modified b

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Modified NASA image, with scale and labels to increase clarity by David Fuchs.

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

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https://dkwiki.dk/b/24afa

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This shaded relief image of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula shows a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction, the event 65 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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