This image shows a large impact on Jupiter's south polar region captured on July 20, 2009, by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Infrared Telescope Facility July 22, 2009
JPL scientist Leigh Fletcher describes a rare chance to observe the resulting debris from a space rock that slammed into Jupiter earlier this week.
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