#nordlinger — Public Fediverse posts

🇩🇪 A new playground for #SpaceRobot : "The volcanic and cave landscapes of Mars and the Moon are reproduced over 1500 square metres. A tunnel, a #crater, various hills, rocks, gullies and sand dunes replicate the #extraterrestrial environments, with two thirds devoted the #Moon 🌙 and one third to #Mars 🔴. The site thus fulfils all relevant geological specifications and includes various subsoils such as basalt, #lava rocks, fine gravel and #suevite from the #Nördlinger Ries." https://www.dlr.de/en/latest/news/2023/03/moon-and-mars-test-site-for-robotic-missions

#DLR #GermanAerospaceCenter

🇩🇪 The #Nördlinger Ries is a 24 km diameter #asteroid ☄️impact crater in western #Bavaria and eastern #BadenWürttemberg. St. George's Church ⛪ in #Nördlingen is built of #asteroid material. The impact explosion 💥 had the power of 1.8 million Hiroshima bombs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYVKe84T48

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Ries

Largest confirmed #impact #craters on #Earth by diameter https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/largest-impact-craters
#asteroid #meteroid

Picture : #Topography and #position of the natural #space #Nördlinger Ries https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naturraum_Ries.png

#AsteroidThreat