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Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
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This shaded relief image of Mexico Yucatan Peninsula show a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretatious-Tertiary Extinction.
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Credit lineShaded Relief with Height as Color, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. NASA/JPL, 2003-03-06. Public domain. ID: PIA03379.