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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 simulation; time marker 01:54

NASA Ames Research Center / M.M. Mac Low, Ph.D. / K. Zahnle, Ph.D.

Freeze frame interior cutaway view of Comet SL9's plasma 'vortex-engine' coma, as it impacts into Jupiter's atmosphere.

CometSim_NASA_ShmkrLvy09_1994_edited.jpg

esa

European Space Agency

Collision: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

Shoemaker-Levy 9
Plasma Coma
Jupiter impact event 1994.

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