The Tunguska Mystery and Google Earth
I really love Scientific American. Not only did it have this neat article on the “Tunguska Event,” a mysterious atmospheric event in the early twentieth century, but they gave Google Earth coordinates to see the events in question! Lake Cheko, a lake that researchers suspect was created from the impact of some sort of celestial body can be found just by typing in “Lake Cheko, Russia,” The impact Zone is listed by SciAm as 60 54’59.98″ N, 100 56′ 59.98 E – but I can’t make out much of what I’m looking at there. Anyway, a pretty neat way to incorporate Google Earth into an article. It added to the sense of interest in the story that I could “go there” via satellite imagery for some reason.




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