Siljan Ring, Sweden, largest impact crater in Europe

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 01 June 2016 at 05:30:45 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 22 October 2018 at 10:30:51 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 10 February 2019 at 16:46:08 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Impact crater, land, asteroid, lake, rings, depression, Sweden
Fig. 1 - S2 (22.10.2019) - Siljan Ring is located in Sweden, it is the largest impact crater in Europe.
2D view
Fig. 2 - S2 (22.10.2019) - With its 52 km diameter, it is one of the fifteen largest craters on Earth.
3D view
Fig. 3 - S1 (01.06.2016) - It comes from a collision that happened ~380 million years ago, around the time of the first Devonian extinction.
3D view
Fig. 4 - S1 (10.02.2019) - Its circular depression is partly filled by lakes located between two rings.
3D view
The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Space Agency or the European Union.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
More on European Commission space:
More on ESA: S-1 website S-2 website S-3 website
More on Copernicus program: Scihub portal Cophub portal Inthub portal Colhub portal
More on VisioTerra: Sentinel Vision Portal Envisat+ERS portal Swarm+GOCE portal CryoSat portal