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Impact A Site

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A natural colour Hubble Space Telescope view of the full disk of the giant planet Jupiter shows numerous comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact sites as seen on July 22, 1994. The A impact site is on the lower left limb. From left to right the features are: the A site; the E-F complex near the white oval southwest of the Red Spot; the dispersing H site to the southeast of the Red Spot; and the site of Q, near the eastern edge. Comet fragment A impacted on July 16, E and F on July 17, H on July 18 and Q on July 20. The image was taken with the Wide Field & Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC2) in wide-field mode.

Credit: Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team, and NASA/ESA

 

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Press Release
Id:opo9437a
Object:Jupiter, Shoemaker-Levy 9
Type:Solar System
Instru-ment:WFPC2
Width:440
Height:440

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