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IUE Observatory at Villafranca, Spain


IUE Observations of SL9 impact on Jupiter

European space scientists are collaborating with their American colleagues in an extensive observing program with the International Ultraviolet Explorer Space Observatory (IUE). The unique nature of IUE, which is a truly international collaborative Project (ESA/NASA/PPARC), has made it possible to take the first spectra only 20 minutes after the first plumes of impact A had risen beyond the limb of Jupiter, and before they were dispersed by the strong stratospheric winds of Jupiter.

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Date of last modification: 17 May 1995.