esahubble_opo9444e September 29th, 1994
Credit: NASA & ESA
This image of Jupiter shows the remarkable spreading of the clouds of smoke and dust thrown into the atmosphere after the impacts of the fragments of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. These dark regions provide the only information ever obtained on the wind direction and speed in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9444e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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