Detail View: Image Archives: Looking into crater from rim

File Name: 
NI98-018.jpg
catalog number: 
NI98-018
collection: 
Image Archives
title: 
Looking into crater from rim
creator: 
Hewett
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Christine Powers
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Looking into Barringer Crater, formerly known as the Canyon Diablo crater from its rim. This crater is 3/4 a mile in diameter and was caused by the explosion upon impact of a meteorite. Harvey Nininger was DMNS Curator of Meteorites 1930 - 1946.
date: 
1920-1940
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
USA, Arizona
modified: 
Shadows/Highlights and Brightness/Contrast adjusted, image cropped using Photoshop CS4.
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
3.48 MB
source: 
5 x 7 inch nitrate negative scanned with Epson Expression 10000XL at 450 dpi, 8 bit grayscale.
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science