Shoemaker crater. Satellite image of the Shoemaker impact crater in Western Australia. This deeply-eroded remnant of a former impact crater consists o

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Shoemaker crater. Satellite image of the Shoemaker impact crater in Western Australia. This deeply-eroded remnant of a former impact crater consists of a central circular region of uplifted archaean granite about 12 km in diameter, surrounded by a downwarped ring of sedimentary rocks with an outer limit of disturbance at about 30 km in diameter, which is a minimum estimate of the size of the original crater. The area also contains a number of seasonal salt lakes. Image acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite, on 23rd September 2000.

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Photo credit: © NASA/GSFC/METI/Japan Space Systems And U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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