Resources
Explorer’s Guide to Impact Craters
- Explorers Guide: Background
- Explorer’s Guide: Impact Crater Virtual Tours
- Barringer Crater
- Haughton Crater
- Ries Impact Structure
- Hellas Basin (Mars)
- Simulations
- The Explorer’s Guide: Resources
- Impact Rocks
- Impact Rock Kits
- Ask an Expert
- Resources
Weblinks
Here are links to other sources of information about impact craters, the cratering process, or planetary science. We invite you to visit these sites if you need supplemental information. Enjoy!
Solar Views
Pictures of planets, moons, and other objects, along with other information about our solar system
Earth Impact Database
A compilation of information about impact craters by researchers at the Geological Survey of Canada since 1985
Terrestrial Impact Craters and their Environmental Effects
A fun, comprehensive website about the impact cratering process by the University of Arizona’s Department of Planetary Science, Lunar and Planetary Lab.
Video Simulations of Impact Cratering Processes
Videos from the Lunar and Planetary Insitute showing how simple craters, complex craters, and large impact basins are formed. Views are in cross-sectional form.
DOWNLOADS
Impact Rock Kits
Background information on Impact Cratering
- Slideshow — Pierazzo, E., Terrestrial Impact Structures, presented at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
- Slideshow — Pierazzo, E., The Environmental Effects of Large Impacts, lecture material adapted from an undergraduate level course in science
- Paper — Osinski et al., The geological record of meteorite impacts. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Impact Cratering in the Solar System, European Space Agency Special Publication SP-612
- Paper — Pierazzo et al., Numerical Modeling of Impact Cratering. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Impact Cratering in the Solar System, European Space Agency Special Publication SP-612