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Jupiter Impact by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (July 1994)
This view of the Shoemaker Impact event of 1994 reveals four separate and successive collisions, each of which caused massive explosions and shockwaves ripping through Jupiter's largely hydrogen (~90%), helium (~10%) and ammonia atmosphere. Visible near to one of the impact sites is the famous "Great Red Spot", a gigantic and violent storm system or vortex that has been raging with colossal hurricane speeds for centuries and large enough to easily contain about 3 Earths. I wonder what the spot would have looked like had a fragment scored a direct hit and plunged straight into it.
Jupiter Impact by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (July 1994)
This view of the Shoemaker Impact event of 1994 reveals four separate and successive collisions, each of which caused massive explosions and shockwaves ripping through Jupiter's largely hydrogen (~90%), helium (~10%) and ammonia atmosphere. Visible near to one of the impact sites is the famous "Great Red Spot", a gigantic and violent storm system or vortex that has been raging with colossal hurricane speeds for centuries and large enough to easily contain about 3 Earths. I wonder what the spot would have looked like had a fragment scored a direct hit and plunged straight into it.