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The Amazon crater

An 8-kilometer (5-mile) wide impact crater in an isolated part of the Bolivian Amazon. The circular feature at the center-left of the image, known as the Iturralde Structure, is possibly the Earth's most recent "big" impact event recording collision with a meteor or comet that might have occurred between 11,000 and 30,000 years ago.

The Amazon Crater

 

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