Did you know a comet once bruised Jupiter? ☄️ #Shorts
30 years ago, the comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, pounded into the southern hemisphere of Jupiter, leaving dark scars in the planet’s atmosphere that persisted for several weeks.
The remarkable event was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision in the Solar System.
Huge plumes up to 3 thousand kilometres high were created by the impact and raised the atmospheric temperatures to 40,000 degrees Celsius.
Almost 10 years after the collision, our Herschel telescope found conclusive evidence that Shoemaker-Levy 9 was the origin of water found in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. Our Juice mission launched last year will map the distribution of Jupiter’s atmospheric ingredients in even greater detail.
This kind of collision was more frequent in the early solar system but today, something as large as Shomaker-Levy impacts Earth only once in a million years.
However, it is important we can protect ourselves from such space hazards which is why we are carrying out several projects dedicated to improving our ability to detect, track and mitigate potentially hazardous asteroids and comets, such as our Hera mission currently planned to launch later this year and our new mission, Ramses, which will to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis.
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
📸 HA. Weaver, T. ESmith (Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA/ESA
📸 ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
📸 H. Hammel, MIT and NASA/ESA
📸 Calar Alto Observatory/Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
#ESA #Jupiter #Asteroid
Whats the plan once we do find something that might wack us from the earth?
I hope Jupiter was able to see a doctor about that bruise and not just any doctor, The Doctor. "TARDIS" 🌌 🔵
Imagine that hitting the earth 9 hits over a week. Scary stuff.
You can see this video clip is made by engineers not enterainers.
Very very emocion
that's one way to tell me that i became an old fart. 😂
I understand Jupiter provides a measure of protection for the Earth by being a gravitational sink for some threatening objects.
However, the more people can produce systems of detection and eventually deflection, the safer we'll be.
Seen it happen
Venus is apparently our shield and protector!
Well, hopefully whatever asteroid is next in line to hit earth will hold off another couple hundred years so we have time to find it and figure out how to move it out of the way. And hopefully we never get hit by a comet. They are much harder to find.
1994. We now have a generation completely unaware & to be honest most of my generation were clueless
I love Zeus soo much 😂💙🌌✨️
All we are is dust in the wind…
Jupiter: Tis' but a scratch.