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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.
IUE Information
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Other information services on SL9/Jupiter collision
Date of last modification: 17 May 1995.