Impact A Site

Esahubble_opo9437a_1024

esahubble_opo9437a July 23rd, 1994

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

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.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9437a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Jupiter • Shoemaker-Levy 9
Subject - Solar System
Planet > Type > Gas Giant
Planet > Feature > Surface > Impact

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  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2) -
Esahubble_opo9437a_1280
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ID
opo9437a
Subject Category
A.1.1.2   A.1.2.1.4  
Subject Name
Jupiter, Shoemaker-Levy 9
Credits
Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team, and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1994-07-23T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9437a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2
Color Assignment
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
440.0, 440.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9437a
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9437a.tif
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Metadata Date
2020-03-13T15:27:32+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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