This is the northeastern section of Birmingham, Alabama, USA with Victoria crater superimposed. To the northwest of Victoria is Dolcito Quarry , a stone quarry started in the late 1800's; to the southeast is East Lake, a recreational lake constructed in the early 1900's; and to the south is part of the B'ham Airport.

My current hometown, OTOH, would fit within the bowl of the crater.

--Bill

This post has been edited by Bill Harris: Nov 13 2006, 11:50 AM

Victoria crater next to Meteor crater in Arizona (also known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater).

Also, meteor crater on google maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...mp;t=k&om=1

dotdk: That was a clever way to show your local scale. I like it. I may have to try that myself.

Yes it was and I tried it.
It's quite scary to do so...All the streets, all the people, everything I know would be wipped out...
Well...Not everything...The cemetary and the shopping would escape...

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/scale.jpg

You do realize the shock wave would wipe out everything in that scene! The rest would wind up buried in the ejecta.

I was just being ironic...
BTW...What's the size of Victoria's ejecta?...

Well - my home town of Leicester isn't covered by good imagery on Google Earth....so I went for my favorite local area that is - Donington Park race circuit......

Hehe, that looks like someone took a paper photo and burned a hole in it

Comparing again...

Here's Alvalade XXI in the bottom of Victoria...My team's stadium...
I should have done this with Benfica's instead...

My hometown isn't covered well by Google either, so I had Vicki take out both runways of our regional airport.

Nice images, people. It appears that the dismal MER eclipse of 2006 has finally descended upon us. We may need more diversions like this to save our sanity over the next few weeks. There really is more than enough information from past sols to pick over that can carry us through this, but for the time being I am jumping into this thread. Google Earth doesn't play well with my dialup, so I grabbed a view of the USGS quads at TopoZone for this. I suspect I will find time to get the aerial view from Google on the fatter pipe at work, tomorrow.

I originally thought I would try to preserve my dwelling by centering the beacon on my house, but the house wouldn't have survived the impact, as has been mentioned. Then I thought, "Maybe I should center the impact on the golf course next door." That would provide someone like me with quite an opportunity for a hole in one. Shortly thereafter I realized that the impact would likely divert the bayou, and fill the crater with water. Now, that's a target I feel comfortable shooting for.

A bit out of topic, but no much
From the begining, the rovers have roved a bit more than 16.2 km (ok, I know, that include every move, every slipage etc...); anyway, this distance, 16.2 km is the SAME distance I drive every day from home to work! What about that ?

More on topic.
This is where I live (red circle is my house) and how Victoria fit in the scenary. Believe it or not there's 65 m difference from the plain near the river up to my house. There's also 730 m from where the picture has been taken to my house. That give me a pretty good idea of the size :

Here's a look at Victoria Crater added to the Tidbinbilla valley at the DSN complex just outside of Canberra.
DSS-43 (70-metre antenna) on the crater floor. Notice the scale of the cars.
Vicky's one big hole in the ground.
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I like that pic. Its surreal seeing a DSN station where Oppy actually is. Also Victoria isn't all that big of a Martian crater really.