When to Use Impact Crater Formation 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
Open the Impact Crater Formation 3D Explorer when you need a size comparison of Barringer, Chicxulub, and Vredefort plus a quick impactor-to-crater scaling feel - without a cratering-mechanics solver.
A five-minute classroom demo
A five-minute classroom demo starts when you open the explorer, click each of the three real craters in turn, then drag the impactor slider from 50 m up to 12 km so students watch the test crater outgrow all three.
Size literacy for the dinosaur-extinction impact
Size literacy for the Chicxulub impact improves when you set the slider near 12,000 m and compare the resulting test crater against the real Chicxulub rim sitting right next to it on screen.
Sessions Impact Crater Formation 3D Explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are ejecta-blanket modeling, seismic-shaking radius, or crater-counting age-dating of a planetary surface. Use Vesta-Rheasilvia 3D Explorer for one named impact basin in close-up, or Gravity Well 3D Explorer for the orbital-mechanics side of impacts. Walk the controls in the Impact Crater Formation 3D Explorer step-by-step guide.
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