It’s quite dramatic, the views from the many walkways!

Check out NASA’s recent feature of Barringer Meteor Crater, and the expert Dr. David Kring’s descriptions about how, when and what. Why is the earth lighter surrounding the crater? Why is is almost square, not round like the others?

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A new documentary film directed by Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer explores how meteorites have impacted our planet’s landscapes and cultures around the world! Featuring stunning cinematography as they travel all continents, sharing indigenous traditions, science, and the possibility of a catastrophic impact in the future. This film premiers on Apple TV November 13.

IMAX has released a new film this month, Asteroid Hunters narrated by Daisy Ridley! Dramatic yet scientific, this film discusses the potential for an asteroid to head for earth and what is being done about it. Barringer Meteorite Crater is aptly featured, as it is considered the best preserved/most visible meteorite crater

This movie, based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express, showcases the 82 km wide Korolev crater on Mars.

A new citizen science project called Vigie-Cratère is inviting “citizen scientists” to travel Earth in search of impact craters to help scientists better reconstruct the history of collisions with Earth. 

A New England photographer captured an astronomically wondrous image of a meteor shooting through the sky with a Milky Way backdrop.