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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Discovering asteroid craters using Google Earth

Emilio González writes about using Google Earth to discover asteroid impact craters.

But the most important thing is, probably, that using a free distributed software ( Google Earth, but I'm also using NASA World Wind) anyone can search for similar structures. Probably I was very lucky, as after this success I spent many hours searching for more without results.

Link (thanks, Kazys!)

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