Information and papers on the Tunguska Event. A possible impact crater for the 1908 Event. The Italian scientific expeditions in Tunguska. The aerial photo surveys of the Tunguska site. The best pictures of the Tunguska explosion site and videos
Tunguska Home Page (Bologna, Italy) » Members » Active collaborations » In memory of our friends » THE TUNGUSKA Event » A possible crater » PUBLICATIONS » PHOTO Gallery » SOME VIDEOS » The expedition » Geo exploration » Working groups » The 2009 researches » Participants » some photos » some photos » Additional measures » some photos » The expedition » Public relations » Publications » some photos » Aerosurveys » Planning the Great Expedition » some photos » Abstracts » Proceedings » mass media » some photos » Publications » mass media » some photos » Other Tunguska photos » The Evenks » Impact of cosmic bodies » IAU commission 15 » EU's 1080 resolution » Declaration of Vienna » BBC News » UK Task Force report » Sir. Clarke message » Citations » Orbital elem. » Conferences » Tunguska URLs » Related links » Four recent books On June 30th, 1908, something exploded 8 km above the Stony Tunguska river. About 2150 square kilometres of Siberian taiga were devastated and 80 millions trees were overthrown. Up to now, it is not clear whether the great explosion was due to a comet or an asteroid or something else. We are searching for an answer. Tunguska region in 1938: Portion of one of the photos from Kulik's aerial photographic survey (1938) of the Tunguska region. The parallel fallen trees indicate the direction of the blast wave. Forecast for Vanavara weather Giuseppe Longo For access statistics click the icon Some Videos 1991 Raices de àrboles 1999 The aerosurvey 1999 The cores 2007 A possible crater 2008 Drowned forest 2010 Clavius crater To see enlarged figures with captions, click on the thumbs. To see the video list, click on "Some videos". Updated: 18 April 2011 >> Back to Top << DISCLAIMER: Feel free to use these photos. We only ask you to refer to our web site: http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/. Thank you very much Best viewed with NS 6.x or MSIE 5.x or greaters. JavaScript enabled Graphics design by: Maurizio Serrazanetti