Earth from space: Ries crater
Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over an area in southern Germany, where approximately 15 million years ago an asteroid crashed through Earth’s atmosphere, in this edition of the Earth from Space programme.
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Very cool ….. Groovy as well …
Saludos bonita , muy buena informacion gracias por compartirla.
What about all them electric discharge scars? 0:44
And the asteroid probably didn't traveled alone.
The steinheimer basin 40km south west of this crater was probably caused by the moon of this asteroid – much like the Didymos system ESA's Hera mission is targeting.
Actually, this is the Nördlinger Ries.
I have been to this crater. During a NATO exercise called REFORGER , I drove into Nordligen. The military maps clearly show the shape of the crater. The church is beautiful and the stones are unique.
A meteorite landed here in Costa Rica in April 23th!!! Just saying 🙆.
Thank you ESA. Nothing better than wake up and watch your videos.
I grew up in the Ries, not only the stone and soil is unique, so is the dialect there 😀 I lived in Harburg, a town with one of Germany's oldest, largest and best preserved medieval castles. The town is also characteristic in its position which is right where the river which filled up the Ries crater at some point after its creation broke through the crater walls and dug a valley at the western rim. I ended up moving away from this really rural countryside but I remember all its fertile fields and if I dug deep enough myself I'd find souvenirs from the asteroid museum of Nördlingen 🙂 have a great day ya'll!
Very interesting!
Thank you for your smile.
I wonder which kind of people are happy to settle a vulcanic crater…