Watch: Slow motion video reveals raindrops on sand behave like asteroid impacts

A video by researchers from the University of Minnesota looks like it could be from another world, but really, the subject matter couldn't be more common place.

Researchers conducted dropped a rain drop on a sandy surface to simulate what an asteroid impact on the Earth would look like — close-up and in slow motion.

The rain drop represents an asteroid and the granular surface the Earth. When the drop makes contact with land, it forms an impressive crater that's not unlike the ones the Earth has sustained from run-ins with space rocks.