The crater. Dale for scale. The hole is 4,000 feet across. How big is that? Follow along. See that white spot on the floor of the crater, past dad's shoulder? Look at the next photo
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Zooming in on the white spot
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REALLY zooming in. See the 6 foot tall astronaut cutout holding a 3 foot by 5 foot U.S. flag? That's how awesomely big this thing is!
The white areas are remnants from when people tried to recover the iron from the meteor. Most of it evaporated on impact as molten droplets.
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A view from overhead, courtesy of the museum
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A geologic cross-section of the crater
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Various science experiments around the crater.
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A chunk of meteor. You can't lift it.
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They trained Apollo astronauts here, so here is a test capsule, made of boiler plate steel rather than aircraft aluminum & titanium, for practice purposes.
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An unobstructed view
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A crow takes it all in
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See the rock on the top of the rim at the center (left right) of the picture? Its the size of a house.
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As wide a shot of the crater as I could make.
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