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Galileo Image of Impact W Target Name:   Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Jupiter Spacecraft:   Galileo Produced by:   NASA Copyright:  Public domain Related Document Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size gll2.gif GIF 618 x 228 17K These four images of Jupiter and the luminous night-side impact of fragment W of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were taken by the Galileo spacecraft on July 22, 1994. The spacecraft was 238 million kilometers (148 million miles) from Jupiter at the time, and 621 million kilometers (386 million miles) from Earth. The spacecraft was about 40 degrees from Earth's line of sight to Jupiter, permitting this direct view. The first image, taken at an equivalent time to 8:06:10 Greenwich Mean Time (1:06 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time), shows no impact. In the next three images, a point of light appears, brightens so much as to saturate its picture element, and then fades again, seven seconds after the first picture. The location is approximately 44 degrees south as predicted; dark spots to the right are from previous impacts. Jupiter is approximately 60 picture elements in diameter.

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