The Whole Crater

[liralen]

The Whole Crater
Originally uploaded by Liralen Li.

This is my stitched together picture of the meteor crater. I tried to get some people in for perspective... not quite sure how well it worked, but... it was fun to take.

Comments

[tagryn]

Nice job!

We saw the crater back in '02 on our cross-country drive while moving me out to California. Quite a sight. 8)

These things are apparently a lot more common than we'd think - a lot of times, the crater has been filled in over time so it just blends in with the landscape. Here's one example, at the mouth of the Chesapeake.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Very cool links!

And thanks to the CNN link to the bee article! I appreciate it a lot!

[tagryn]

Here's another one on the disappearing bees from the NYT, with more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/science/24bees.html
It sounds like it isn't so much a matter of scientists not having any idea about what's causing it, more that there's hasn't been one definitive cause that's been identified yet.