Meteorite and asteroid impact craters found on Earth
Created by an asteroid impact 590 million years ago, the Acraman Crater in South Australia is marked by Lake Acraman. This satellite image shows the lake, which sits in the center of the 40-km (25 mi) crater.
Karakul is the name of the lake set within a large 52-km (32 mi) impact crater in the Tajik National Park. The structure, seen here from satellite, dates back 25 million years.
The Sudbury Basin in Ontario is approximately 10–15 km (6.2–9.3 mi) in diameter and was formed over 1.8 billion years ago. The basin is pictured in a screenshot from NASA's globe software WorldWind.
The dramatic near-circular rim of the Tenoumer Crater is one of the distinguishing geological features of the western Sahara Desert landscape of Mauritania. This photograph by Michael Dennig perfectly captures the crater's proportions.
No less than 14 craters make up the Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve in Australia's Northern Territory. They are believed to have been formed when a fragmented meteorite hit the Earth's surface.
Lake Bosumtwi, the only natural lake in Ghana, is sunk into an ancient impact crater located south-east of Kumasi. The Ashanti consider Bosumtwi a sacred lake.
Meteor Crater, also called Barringer Crater, is a massive meteorite impact crater sited near Flagstaff, Arizona. One of the best preserved craters of its kind on Earth, this extraordinary natural wonder is some 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in diameter and approximately 170 m (560 ft) deep.