Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 - Galileo
Four image sequence of Comet SL-9 fragment W impact on Jupiter
Galileo images of the collision of fragment W of comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. The images were taken
from 238 million km with the green filter at intervals
of 2 1/3 seconds. The first image, taken at 8:06:10 UT
on 22 July 1994, shows no sign of the impact. The
second image shows small bright point at lower left,
approximately 44 degrees south latitude. The point
brightens in the next frame and then begins to fade.
The dark spots to the right are remnants of previous
impacts. Jupiter is 140,000 km in diameter, north is up.
(Galileo, P-44542)
