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  • Title: HST far-ultraviolet imaging of Jupiter during the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
    Author: Clarke JT, Prangé R, Ballester GE, Trauger J, Evans R, Rego D, Stapelfeldt K, Ip W, Gérard JC, Hammel H.
    Journal: Science; 1995 Mar 03; 267(5202):1302-7. PubMed ID: 7871427.
    Abstract:
    Hubble Space Telescope far-ultraviolet images of Jupiter during the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts show the impact regions darkening over the 2 to 3 hours after the impact, becoming darker and more extended than at longer wavelengths, which indicates that ultraviolet-absorbing gases or aerosols are more extended, more absorbing, and at higher altitudes than the absorbers of visible light. Transient auroral emissions were observed near the magnetic conjugate point of the K impact site just after that impact. The global auroral activity was fainter than average during the impacts, and a variable auroral emission feature was observed inside the southern auroral oval preceding the impacts of fragments Q1 and Q2.
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