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This is the Karakul impact crater in Tajikistan, in a @CopernicusEU Sentinel natural color image of 1 Sept 2019.
With the crater floor at 4000 meter elevation, this 50 km wide impact crater is the highest altitude crater known.
This is the Karakul impact crater in Tajikistan, in a @CopernicusEU Sentinel natural color image of 1 Sept 2019.
With the crater floor at 4000 meter elevation, this 50 km wide impact crater is the highest altitude crater known.
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The age of the Karakul impact crater is unknown, but it must be younger than 60 million years, when the Pamir formed.
This is the crater in a Copernicus Sentinel Sythetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image from 8 January 2020:
The age of the Karakul impact crater is unknown, but it must be younger than 60 million years, when the Pamir formed.
This is the crater in a Copernicus Sentinel Sythetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image from 8 January 2020:
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Karakul crater (the name means "black Lake", after the lake in its center) is located in the Pamir mountains and is surrounded by glaciers and snowy peaks, some of which reach over 6000 meter.
This is an elevation map of the impact crater based on Shuttle SRTM data:
Karakul crater (the name means "black Lake", after the lake in its center) is located in the Pamir mountains and is surrounded by glaciers and snowy peaks, some of which reach over 6000 meter.
This is an elevation map of the impact crater based on Shuttle SRTM data:
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Finally, this is an oblique 3D rendering of the Karakul crater, which I created by draping the @CopernicusEU Sentinel natural color image of 1 Sept 2019 over a NASA Shuttle SRTM Digital Elevation Model:
Finally, this is an oblique 3D rendering of the Karakul crater, which I created by draping the @CopernicusEU Sentinel natural color image of 1 Sept 2019 over a NASA Shuttle SRTM Digital Elevation Model:
