A multi-wavelength study of the 2009 impact on Jupiter: Comparison of high resolution images from Gemini, Keck and HST

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 722-741

  de Pater, Imke ^a   Fletcher, Leigh N ^b   Pérez Hoyos, Santiago ^c   Hammel, Heidi B ^d   Orton, Glenn S ^e   Wong, Michael H ^a   Luszcz Cook, Statia ^a   Sánchez Lavega, Agustin ^e   Boslough, Mark ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Hubble Space Telescope observations; Impact processes; Infrared observations; Jupiter, Atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049528957     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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