Caption: The Manicouagan crater as imaged by Space Shuttle mission STS-9 (launch 1983 Nov28) using Space Shuttle Columbia.

Features:

1. There is snow since this is a winter. It may be true colors, but it looks a little overly grey.

   The view is oblique and to the west.

2. The Manicouagan crater is in Quebec, Canada, ∼ 200 km north of Baie-Comeau, Quebec---i.e., the middle of nowhere.

   The area of the Manicouagan crater is rugged and heavily timbered and is in the Canadian Shield.

3. The Manicouagan crater is multi-ring crater of ∼ 100 km in diameter.

   The visible part is ∼ 72 km in diameter (see Wikipedia: Manicouagan Reservoir: Manicouagan impact crater).

   The Manicouagan crater is the 6th largest confirmed impact crater on Earth.

4. The Manicouagan crater is one of the more obvious Earth impact crater. For most impact craters, you'd need some authority to tell you they were there.

5. The annular lake seen in the image is Manicouagan Reservoir which has a diameter. of ∼ 70 km and may be a depression between two rings of the multi-ring crater, but Wikipedia is NOT saying.

   The island formed by Manicouagan Reservoir is Rene-Levasseur Island.

   Manicouagan Reservoir is drained at the south end by Manicouagan River which flows south ∼ 200 km and empties into the Saint Lawrence River not far from it becomes the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

6. The crater is 214(1) Myr old (thus formed in the Triassic (252.2(5)--201.3(2) Myr BP).

   The impactor is believed to be an asteroid of ∼ 5 km in size scale.

7. Mount Babel (peak 952 m above sea level) is believed to be the central peak of the crater which is also then a central-peak crater.

8. The crater has been heavily eroded particularly by glaciers during the Quaternary glaciation (AKA the current ice age).