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Science 3 March 1995:
Vol. 267. no. 5202, pp. 1302 - 1307
DOI: 10.1126/science.7871427
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Science, Vol 267, Issue 5202, 1302-1307
Copyright © 1995 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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HST far-ultraviolet imaging of Jupiter during the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

JT Clarke, R Prange, GE Ballester, J Trauger, R Evans, D Rego, K Stapelfeldt, W Ip, JC Gerard, H Hammel, and al. et

Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.

Hubble Space Telescope far-ultraviolet images of Jupiter during the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts show the impact regions darkening over the 2 to 3 hours after the impact, becoming darker and more extended than at longer wavelengths, which indicates that ultraviolet-absorbing gases or aerosols are more extended, more absorbing, and at higher altitudes than the absorbers of visible light. Transient auroral emissions were observed near the magnetic conjugate point of the K impact site just after that impact. The global auroral activity was fainter than average during the impacts, and a variable auroral emission feature was observed inside the southern auroral oval preceding the impacts of fragments Q1 and Q2.


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