The astronauts preparing for the 2024 Artemis mission to the moon are training here on earth where conditions mimic the lunar surface

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

The Lake Bosumtwi (also called Bosomtwe) is an impact crater in Ghana, a 10 km wide crater from only roughly 2 million years ago, is now a beautiful and scenic visit.

A dramatic recent discovery of one of Earth’s 25 largest Meteor Craters was made possible by NASA’s P3 scanning aircraft updated mapping

Stose Crater: Named after Anna Jonas Stose, who was a pioneering geologist who studied in Philadelphia and elsewhere.

Unnamed lunar craters are being named after notable women and minority scientists in an effort to recognize the crucial importance of both women and underrepresented groups to the fields of scientific exploration.

Likely the local people were made well aware of this impact in Australia, roughly 5400 years ago, while the continent was widely populated.

Ever wonder what happened to all the impact sites on our planet? Erosion is what happened, our planets active surface, not to mention oceans, help mask the most ancient sites. But, there are quite a few confirmed ancient impact sites in North America-!

If you were to guess, not knowing about impact cratering, you might assume that the meteorite was enormous!

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.

A thoroughly enjoyable article about visiting the crater, including the science and history, by James Martin for CNet

IMAGINE STANDING ON THE EDGE of a giant crater, knowing nothing about how this massive hole in the ground came to be. Or figuring out that a cataclysmic event like an asteroid hitting the Earth killed the dinosaurs, but having no visible evidence on the planet of a collision of that magnitude.

.."Imagine an undersea Yellowstone Caldera, but one that is several times larger and produced by the staggering impact event that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs," says lead author David Kring at the Lunar and Planetary Institute of the Universities Space Research Association.

The ~180-km-diameter Chicxulub peak-ring crater and ~240-km multiring basin, produced by the impact that terminated the Cretaceous, is the largest remaining intact impact basin on Earth. International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Expedition 364 drilled to a depth of 1335 m below the sea floor into the peak ring, providing a unique opportunity to study the thermal and chemical modification of Earth’s crust caused by the impact.

Analyzing satellite images showing the terrain between the villages of Qaret Had El Bahr and Qaret El Allafa, Egypt, an international research team discovered what seems to be a previously unknown crater in the midst of the Sahara Desert. The shape resembles a typical impact crater, like the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona.