
First Comet Impacts Captured by Keck Telescope

This single infrared image (3.5-micron wavelength) of Jupiter
shows the bright polar caps and a familiar storm system just
after the first impacts of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy
9 on July 16, 1994.  The brightest spot in the planet's southern
hemisphere is the aftermath of comet fragment A, the dimmer spot
at the bottom left is the aftermath of fragment C.

Image courtesy of James Graham, Imke de Pater, Mike Brown, Mike
Liu, Garrett Jernigan, Marina Fomenkova, Andy Ingersoll, Phil
Marcus, W. M. Keck Observatory.

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