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- Near-infrared image of Jupiter taken in a 2.22 micron filter from the
- Apache Point Observatory 3.5-meter telescope at 05:35 UT July 19. The
- G and D impact sites appear in this spectral region of strong methane
- absorption as image as a single white cloud over 14,000 km in diameter.
- At higher contrast, the impact regions can be resolved into an intensely
- bright core about 4,000 km diameter embedded within the larger cloud.
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- Mark Marley and Nancy Chanover, Department of Astronomy, New Mexico
- State University
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