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Target: Jupiter
The dark scars of several powerful impacts stand out in this Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, which was snapped in July 1994. That month, almost a score of mountain-sized pieces of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter's atmosphere. The impacts created explosions many times more powerful than hydrogen bombs, and left dark scars (the features at right) as big as Earth. [Credit: NASA/STSCI]
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