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Earth has finally struck back after eons of rolling with the extraterrestrial punches. This Monday, NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid named Dimorphos at 14,000 mph (22,500 kmh) to test the feasibility of redirecting an asteroid by kinetic impact. Numerous meteors, both big and small, have bombarded the Earth over its long history. So to celebrate the mission’s success here are some of the planet’s greatest hits and the impact craters they left behind. Image 1 - PlanetScope • Lonar Crater, India • 1.8km/1.1mi wide, 35k-50k ya • May 1, 2022 Image 2 - PlanetScope • Pingualuit Crater, Canada • 3.4km/2.1mi wide, ~1.4 million ya • July 22, 2022 Image 3 - PlanetScope • Roter Kamm Crater, Namibia • 2.5km/1.6mi wide, ~5 million ya • September 9, 2022 Image 4 - PlanetScope • Gosses Bluff, Australia • 4.5km/2.8mi wide, ~142 million ya • September 22, 2022 Image 5 - PlanetScope • Shoemaker Crater, Australia • 30km/19mi wide, 600–1000 million ya • January 28, 2022 #planet #plan...

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