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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 Team. Caption by Michon Scott


The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite acquired this true-colour image on August 28, 2009. Sunlight shines from the southeast, leaving the northern and western slopes in shadow. The crater's rim rises some 20 to 30 meters above the crater bottom. The crater occurs on a block of Proterzoic rock more than 600 million years old, but the crater's age - which may be considerably younger - has not yet been identified.

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Tabun-Khara-Obo is a meteorite crater in the Dornogovi Aimag (province) the south-east of Mongolia.
The crater, which is exposed at the surface, is 1.3 km in diameter and has an estimated age of 150 ± 20 million years (Upper Jurassic).

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Latitude: 44° 7'52.91"N, Longitude: 109°39'17.92"E



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