Vredefort Crater. Landsat 7 satellite image in infrared and visible light of Vredefort crater,South Africa. Water is blue,vegetation is green and bare land is pink. This is the largest known impact crater on Earth,with a diameter of approximately 300 kilometres. It is thought to have been created by an asteroid,measuring over 10 kilometres wide,that collided with Earth approximately 2 billion years ago. The Vaal River is seen running from centre right to left | |
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