On first glance, it looks like this giant crater has been left after a colossal hand punched down and gouged out tonnes of earth.
The gigantic holepunch which is a 50,000-year-old meteor crater was snapped by a breathless plane passenger on a flight over Arizona recently, who then posted the clip online.
550ft deep and almost a mile wide, the Barringer crater is located 18 miles from Winslow and 37 miles from Flagstaff, near to the Grand Canyon.
The traveller shared the footage on Reddit, gushing about the incredible view.
"I saw a meteor crater from my plane seat in the middle of the Western USA," the user who identified their name as Gina posted.
She told Newsweek that the sight "seemed other-wordly" and like "close up shots of Mars".
Gina claimed she was flying to Australia when she peered out of her cabin window and noticed the awe-inspiring hole in the landscape.
"It made me think moving to Australia and traveling in planes for nearly one day was like being an astronaut on a new expedition."
At time of writing, her original Reddit post has now racked up 65.4k upvotes since being posted on July 4.
Despite numerous attempts to make it public, the crater currently remains under private ownership but is open to visitors.
The meteor which struck the site would have weighed 300,000 tons and been travelling at a speed of 26,000 miles per hour (12 kilometers per second), creating an explosion 150 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb.
Geologists have said the meteorite was mostly vaporized upon impact, leaving few remains in the crater.
An explanation on meteorcrater.com said: "Most of the meteorite was melted by the force of the impact and spread across the landscape in a very fine, nearly atomized mist of molten metal.
"Millions of tons of limestone and sandstone were blasted out of the crater, covering the ground for a mile in every direction with a blanket of shattered, pulverized, and partially melted rock mixed with fragments of meteoritic iron."
Very few meteor craters on earth are visible due to being eroded over thousands of years. The relatively young age of the Arizona crater however makes it difficult to miss.
The biggest crater on earth can be found in South Africa. The Vredefort crater would have measured up to 200m across following impact, but is now largely unrecognisable due to being formed 4bn years ago.
