Arizona's Meteor Crater (Flight Sim Fieldtrip)
Game: Microsoft Flight Simulator
Developer: Microsoft
Genre: Simulator 🛩
Platform: PC 🖥
Host: Jake Atterby
Field of study: Vertebrate Palaeontology 🐡 🐠 🐟
Cost: 💰💰💰💰💰
Accuracy: 🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬
Enjoyment: ❤️🧡💛💚
Further Reading:
If you want to visit the locations highlighted in this video in Microsoft Flight Simulator yourself, or even just Google Maps, here are their names and coordinates:
- Meteor Crater National Landmark: 35°1′38″N 111°1′21″W
- Tenoumer Impact Crater: 22°55′5″N 10°24′27″W
- Tnorala (Gosses Bluff Crater): 23°49′15″S 132°18′28″E
- René-Levasseur Island/ Lake Manicouagan: 51°23′50″N 68°41′30″W
- Lake Acraman Impact Structure: 32°1′S 135°27′E
- Yarrabubba Crater: 27°10'56"S 118°50'04"E
For more on native land acknowledgements: https://native-land.ca/
References:
- https://www.meteorcrater.com/
- Hamacher, 2020. Native American Traditions of Meteor Crater, Arizona: Fact, Fiction, or Appropriation. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Vol. 23(2), pp. 375 ‒389,
- Erickson et al. 2020. Precise radiometric age establishes Yarrabubba, Western Australia, as Earth’s oldest recognised meteorite impact structure. Nature Communications 11 300
Other Credits:
Music:
My Shooting Star by Miracle of Sound
miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/track/my-shooting-star
Images:
- "Full Moon" by Gregory H. Revera (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FullMoon2010.jpg)
- https://www.google.co.uk/moon/
- "Square Craters" by Dr. David R. Williams. NEAR Shoemaker. (https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mission/near/near_eros_4.html)
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