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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.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Plasma Coma
Jupiter impact event 1994.
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