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Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter

NASA image release June 3, 2010

 

These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal an impact scar on Jupiter fading from view over several months between July 2009 and November 2009.

 

To see the full image without text go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4666495627

 

Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Wong, H. Hammel, I. de Pater, and the Jupiter Impact Team

 

To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/jupiter-strike....

 

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Uploaded on June 3, 2010