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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Sites on Jupiter
- Object NameObject NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
- Release DateSeptember 29, 1994
- Science ReleaseJupiter’s Upper Atmospheric Winds Revealed in Ultraviolet Images by Hubble Telescope
- CreditScience Release Credit: J.T. Clarke, G.E. Ballester (University of Michigan), and J.T. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and NASA
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Jupiter's Upper Atmospheric Winds in Ultraviolet Light
Top – Three impact sites appear as dark smudges lined up along Jupiter's southern hemisphere (from left to right, sites C, A, and E). This pair of images was obtained on 17 July, several hours after the E impact. These 3 impact sites appear strikingly darker in the...
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