IRAFACE STRUCTURE, SEARA DA KANGALHA, BODY MAP, manufactured using Tandem-X Mission Digital Elevation Model. Credit: Gottwald, Kankman, Remold: Terrestrial Impact Structures, The Tandem-X Atlas, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pefil
A neurologist from the University of Brasilia in Brasilia, Prof. Dr. With Wolf Uwe Remold, a geologist from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) at the University of Freiburg’s Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Tho. Thomas Kankman. ) Has published an atlas that provides a detailed overview of all known effect craters on each continent. The authors present more than 200 terrestrial effect sites in high resolution topographic maps and satellite images, complete with detailed geological descriptions and photographs of crater structures and their rocks. They also explain the essential details of each impact event.
Kankman explains that the formation of craters by the impact of asteroids and comets has always been a fundamental process. As the planets evolved with their moon, these planets played an important role in enhancing the planets, shaping the surface of the planets and later influencing their evolution as well. And the impact of the big meteor eventually affected the evolution of life on Earth.
Today, what can be seen in the structure of the impact on the Earth’s surface can be mapped by satellites in low Earth orbit. From 2010 to 2016, DLRA successfully measured the Earth’s surface with radar satellites from the Tandem-X mission. Acquired data allowed, for the first time, to receive a worldwide field model with worldwide elevation Accuracy Up to one meter. From this global digital elevation model, authors are able to build this complete 600-page topographic atlas with information about all known terrestrial influence craters.
References: Gottwald, M., Kankman, T., Remold, WU (2020): Terrestrial Impact Structures. Tandem-X Atlas. Part 1 and 2. Munich.
