Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
This shaded relief image of Mexico Yucatan Peninsula show a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretatious-Tertiary Extinction.
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NASA ID
PIA03379
Date Created
March 6, 2003
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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