Another Impact on Jupiter
While astronomer and all-star blogger Phil Plait was skeptical at first, enough evidence has come in to support an impact. Very cool.
The image was taken by the Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii. This IR image is at 1.65 microns, about twice the wavelength of what the human eye can see. What this shows is the bright impact site and to its upper left particulate matter — debris — thrown up by the impact and lit by the Sun.
