Scars from space
Craters left by things that fell from the sky.
Terra Terra Collections Scars from space
Meteor Crater, the Ries, Vredefort and more: places where an asteroid or comet struck the Earth, as 3D terrain from real elevation. The best of them are almost perfect bowls and rings, which makes them some of the best STL files in the library.
11 stops · read them in order, or jump to the one you want
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Meteor Crater, Arizona
A mile-wide hole from an impact 50,000 years ago.
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Wolfe Creek Crater, Australia
A near-perfect 880 m ring in the Western Australian desert, left by an iron meteorite.
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Lonar Crater, India
A salt lake in a meteorite crater blasted into basalt.
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Pingualuit Crater, Canada
A nearly perfect crater lake in northern Quebec, with some of the clearest water on Earth.
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Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana
A 10 km crater lake left by an impact about a million years ago.
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Ries Crater, Germany
A 24 km crater blasted by an asteroid 15 million years ago, with a town inside.
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Gosses Bluff, Australia
The eroded core of a crater from an asteroid that hit 142 million years ago.
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Vredefort Dome, South Africa
The largest verified impact structure on Earth, over 2 billion years old.
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Manicouagan Crater, Canada
A ring-shaped lake in a 214-million-year-old impact crater.
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Clearwater Lakes, Canada
Twin impact craters in Quebec, shown by a double ring of lakes.
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Haughton Crater, Devon Island
A 23 km impact crater in the Canadian Arctic, used by NASA as a practice ground for Mars.
