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400M Year Old Impact Crater Lake Still Visible

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility.

Even after Global Plate Tectonics and 400Million years, this lake stands out starkly from the surrounding tundra in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Nicholson Crater is nearly 8 miles across , captured by NASA’s Landsat 7 Satellite.