Manicouagan Crater, ISS Image
One of the Expedition 38 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station recorded this image which features the Manicouagan Crater and reservoir located primarily in Manicouagan Regional County Municipality in the Côte-Nord region of Québec, Canada. Scientists believe the crater was caused by the impact of a 5 kilometer (3 mile) diameter asteroid about million years ago (Triassic Period). The crater is a multiple-ring structure about 60 miles across, with its 40 mile diameter inner ring as its most prominent feature; it contains a 40 mile diameter annular lake, the Manicouagan Reservoir, surrounding an inner island plateau, René-Levasseur Island. Because it is so unique and easily recognizable from the sky and space, the crater has been the subject of hundreds of images from astronauts for 45-plus years.
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