Short Description of the A Sequence

This sequence of 100 images shows the A impact of 16 July 1994. These 
images were taken at the German-Spanish 3.5 meter telescope on Calar 
Alto in southern Spain, using MAGIC, the near infrared camera of the 
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie in Heidelberg, Germany. 

The bright object to the right of Jupiter is the innermost Galilean 
moon, Io, and the fainter oval structure in the southern hemisphere is 
the Great Red Spot. The polar caps appear bright at the wavelength of 
the observations, 2.3 um, which was selected to maximize contrast 
between the impact region and the jovian cloud deck. 

Picture Credits: 

Tom Herbst, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Doug 
Hamilton, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Hermann 
Boehnhardt, Universitaets-Sternewarte, Muenchen, and Jose Luis Ortiz 
Moreno, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada.