{"id":367,"date":"2006-03-08T08:42:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2006-03-08T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T16:50:45","slug":"sahara-impact-crater-in-three-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/sahara-impact-crater-in-three-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahara Impact Crater in Three-D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Break out the red-blue 3D glasses and check this stereo picture of the Sahara Impact Crater. What? You don&#8217;t have a pair? Well, just send <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowsymphony.com\/freestuff.html\">Rainbow Symphony<\/a> a self-addressed-stamped envelope and they&#8217;ll send you a free pair!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>KEBIRA IMPACT CRATER<\/strong>: Sometimes asteroids miss, and sometimes they don&#8217;t. Planetary scientist Farouk El-Baz of Boston University has just announced the discovery of a 19-mile-wide impact crater in the Sahara desert. He named it Kebira, an Arabic word meaning &#8220;large.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kebira is so large that it is actually difficult to see from ground level. Satellite images show it better. Using Landsat 7 data, Frank Reddy of Astronomy Magazine created this 3D anaglyph:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/kebira-3d.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>View with red-blue glasses for 3D effect.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Desert sands, wind, and ancient rivers have eroded the dark, 100-million-year-old sandstone, but the crater&#8217;s rings and central uplift still stand out,&#8221; says Reddy. &#8220;El-Baz thinks this is the source of a yellow-green desert glass found throughout the region.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SpaceWeather.com offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/swpod2006\/08mar06\/reddy1.jpg\">larger 3D view of the crater<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Break out the red-blue 3D glasses and check this stereo picture of the Sahara Impact Crater. What? You don&#8217;t have a pair? Well, just send Rainbow&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}