BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Barringer Crater

IMPACT · the textbook crater
Barringer Crater
AI illustration of the real object
AGE about 50,000 yearsSIZE 1.2 km wide

The most perfectly preserved impact crater on Earth, a clean bowl punched into the Arizona desert by an iron chunk about 50 meters wide. For decades scientists insisted it was volcanic; mining engineer Daniel Barringer spent his fortune arguing it was an impact, and he was right. This crater taught humanity that the sky sometimes falls.

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