Image: Chicxulub radar topography

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Description: This shaded relief image of Mexico's 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, the event 65 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then on Earth.
Title: Chicxulub radar topography
Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03379 Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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