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phi ([personal profile] totient) wrote2010-03-10 02:53 pm
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what's...

this?

Answer in the comments.
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[personal profile] fraterrisus 2010-03-10 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A newly recognized (but still hypothetical, until they can do a geological survey to confirm) impact crater.

The cute thing is that that was only discovered because of deforestation, allowing satellite imagery to show the tell-tale ring structure, and may well have been first spotted by a random Google Earth surfer.

[identity profile] palmwiz.livejournal.com 2010-03-11 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. Congrats to everyone else ([livejournal.com profile] qwrrty was the first) who found the topical crater reference, and to [livejournal.com profile] drbitch who so far has been the only other answerer to also find the Google Earth connection.
Edited 2010-03-11 14:35 (UTC)