Saturday, August 15, 2009

The big ones are out there

Hot on the heels of my "spend the money" post, Wired Science has images of some of the Earth's BIG impact structures, taken from space:

Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space

Quebec's Manicougan River (partly because it reminds me of Paul Bunyan's Round River Drive ) is a favorite of mine:

Manicougan


Even though Bunyan is an American tall-tale hero and the Manicougan River is in Quebec -- don't you wonder a little if it could have been the inspiration for the story?

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