A 1.65-micron image from the Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii:
The smallish bright spot on the bottom is the new impact, which looks black at visible wavelengths.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Impact on Jupiter!
JPL releases observations that show that Jupiter got whacked with something big. It's not quite as big as the Shoemaker-Levy impacts of 1994, but it's still very impressive and possibly may become observable.
A 1.65-micron image from the Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii:
The smallish bright spot on the bottom is the new impact, which looks black at visible wavelengths.
A 1.65-micron image from the Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii:
The smallish bright spot on the bottom is the new impact, which looks black at visible wavelengths.
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