An Old Planetary Bruise

NASA announced a recent visualization of the Chicxulub impact (65 Million Years BCE) on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The rendering was made from radar data collected from a recent Space Shuttle flight, and shows a semi-circular area of sedementary rock, accumlated after the impact, that eroded in a such a way as to betray the underlying rock that had been distressed by the impact.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on March 11, 2003 at 12:00 am and filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.