[meteorite-list] Barringer Meteor Crater Photo

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:14 2004
Message-ID: <200106280019.RAA10842_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/PIAGenCatalogPage.pl?PIA03212

                    Image Title:Barringer Meteor Crater, Arizona
                      Catalog #:PIA03212
                    Target Name:Earth
              Is a satellite of:Sol (our Sun)
                        Mission:Landsat
             Spacecraft/Mission:Landsat

                     Instrument:Unk
                   Product Size:439 samples x 593 lines
                    Produced By:JPL
               Primary Data Set:Landsat_page
                  Full-Res TIFF:PIA03212.tif (890 kbytes)

Original Caption Released with Image:

     Barringer Crater, also known as 'Meteor Crater', is a 1,300-meter (0.8
     mile) diameter, 174-meter (570-feet) deep hole in the flat-lying desert
     sandstones 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) west of Winslow, Arizona. Since
     the 1890s geologic studies here played a leading role in developing an
     understanding of impact processes on the Earth, the moon and elsewhere
     in the solar system.

     This view was acquired by the Landsat 4 satellite on December 14, 1982.
     It shows the crater much as a lunar crater might appear through a
     telescope. Morning sun illumination is from the southeast (lower
     right). The prominent gully meandering across the scene is known as
     Canyon Diablo. It drains northward toward the Little Colorado River and
     eventually to the Grand Canyon. The Interstate 40 highway crosses and
     nearly parallels the northern edge of the scene.

     The ejecta blanket around the crater appears somewhat lighter than the
     surrounding terrain, perhaps in part due to its altered mineralogic
     content. However, foot traffic at this interesting site may have
     scarred and lightened the terrain too. Also, the roughened surface here
     catches the sunlight on the southerly slopes and protects a highly
     reflective patchy snow cover in shaded northerly slopes, further
     lightening the terrain as viewed from space on this date.

Image Note:
     Image Size: 16.9 km x 12.5 km Colors: Bands 1, 2+4, 3 in blue, green,
     and red, respectively.
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