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Chicxulub Impact - V9
Asteroid impact. Illustration of a large asteroid
colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. This impact is believed to have led to the death of the
dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. The impact
formed the Chicxulub crater, which is a...
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, asteroid, Blender 3D, Chicxulub, Cretaceous, geology, impact, K...
Chicxulub Post Impact - V1
Artwork of the Chicxulub crater, shortly after its formation. This crater was formed
66 million years ago, off the coast of present-day Mexico, following the impact of an asteroid 10-14 kilometres across. The
asteroid is widely believed to have provo...
Keywords:
... extinct, extinction, graphic, gravity, impact,
K-Pg, Limb, mexico, north americ ...
Chicxulub Post Impact - V2
Artwork of the Chicxulub crater, shortly after its formation. This crater was formed
66 million years ago, off the coast of present-day Mexico, following the impact of an asteroid 10-14 kilometres across. The
asteroid is widely believed to have provo...
Keywords:
... extinct, extinction, graphic, gravity, impact,
K-Pg, Limb, mexico, north americ ...
Lunar Impact
Artwork of a small meteoroid impacting the surface
of the Moon. Impacts are much less common now than
billions of years ago; yet they still occur, because the Moon has no atmosphere to
slow down or destroy incoming missiles....
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, asteroid, astronomy, collision, impact, landscape, meteoroid, r...
Shoemaker-Levy 9 - V2
Artist's impression of fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 approaching and striking
the planet Jupiter in July 1994. Fragments of the comet are seen in the foreground,
outgassing in the solar wind. Gas of different colours is produced by different el...
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, astronomy, Blender 3D, comet impact, comet strike, cosmology, c...
Planet Collision
... the two bodies to merge into a giant, donut-shaped cloud of hat gas and dust
called a synestia (background). Debris from the impact is seen in the foreground. ...
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, collision, debris, impact, Leiden Obs...
Moon Formation - V3
Artwork of the young Earth-Moon system. The Earth had recently formed when it was
struck by a protoplanet – called Theia – roughly three times the size of Mars.
Debris from the impact went into orbit, while the
cores of the two planets merged. Wi...
Keywords:
... r 3D, crescent phase, earth, formation, impact,
planet, planet Earth, Theia, The ...
Asteroid Strike - V2
In this cataclysmic scene, a city suffers a near-miss as an asteroid strikes in the
distance. The effect of a large meteorite impact or
meteor airburst over a city would be catastrophic, with extensive damage and loss of
life. Asteroids that are 30 t...
Keywords:
... truction, end of the world, extinction, impact,
landscape, meteor, meteorite ...
Tunguska 1908
Artwork of the famous Tunguska event, which occurred on June 30 1908 in the Eastern
Siberian Tiaga. A stony meteoroid, some 50-60m (160-200ft) across, is believed to
have entered the Earth's atmosphere before exploding at an altitude of 5-10km (3-6
m...
Keywords:
... estruction, Eon_Vue, explosion, forest, impact,
lake, landscape, near-miss, tree ...
Heavy Bombardment
Between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago, the Solar System was in turmoil. Known as the
Late Heavy Bombardment, the period was characterized by an enhanced rate of asteroid
impacts in the inner Solar System - remnants from
the planet building processes ...
Keywords:
... nt phase, formation, heavy bombardment, impact,
planetesimal, protoplanet, Solar ...