Hubble Space Telescope observed the effects of impact on Jupiter PDF Print E-mail
 Hubble Space Telescope images made by a new spot. Its rise was due to hit the comet or Jupiter Planetoids. Over the past few days the biggest telescopes in the world observed Jupiter. The reason is the impact that a small object in the largest planet in the Solar System. The impact caused the emergence of new spots in the planet's atmosphere. Stain was discovered by Australian astronomy lover Anthony Wesley on 19 July. The stain varies from day to day. Amy Simon-Miller of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center estimated that the diameter of the object that hit Jupiter was in the order of several football pitches, and the strength of the explosion a thousand times greater than during disasters Tungusky in Siberia (in 1908, took place in Siberia, or a comet fall Planetoids which is likely being hit by the explosion in the Earth). Photograph taken 23 July WFC3 new camera, which was installed in May by the astronauts of the space. The camera is not yet fully calibrated, but such a unique event without leaving doubt as to the decision to it. Similar collision with Jupiter was observed so far only once, when the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 entering ended his life in the planet's atmosphere in July 1994 fell to pieces on the earlier pieces, which of Jupiter's atmosphere in many places.
 
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