Extinction Level Event by cbalaskas
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Life near the impact would be instantly wiped out from the effects of high temperatures and pressures. Injection of huge masses of dust (and gases) into the atmosphere would effectively block out sunlight for long periods of time to the point that most life could not be sustained ("Nuclear Winter").
--NASA JPL
Comments (6)
guigui
Absolutely well done!!!!
Tom Berna
Very very kewl.
alexabel
is good
malfunkshun
This is super cool but I'm a nitpicker so here's my nitpickings. I love the way the expanding shockwave looks, but I think that the clouds which it has already crossed over should either be severely disrupted or completely gone, as they probably would have been vaporized into an even finer vapor than they already were. I like the way the clouds were done, but I think they maybe should be a little more uniformly scattered across the globe. One more teeny nitpick. At the point of impact, say right where the asteroid meets the planet, I think there should be a ring of intense brightness, some kind of super bright glow. Just a thin ring of it, because the scale of this thing is huge. But some kind of visual evidence of the huge matter to energy conversion which is going on. But don't get me wrong, this pic is really cool as it is.
kelley
I am thinking that at the point of contact, the meteor/comet would be totally engulfed in a burning plasma cloud from friction with the air. Since kinetic energy is converted to heat when it stops moving, and since the object is already cratering, we should be seeing a mega-nuclear disruption at ground zero. But still...a terrific image. Love your texturing work on this and others in your gallery.
Cerpher
I like it.