Jupiter’s Darkest Days: The Impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9

In July 1994 , the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter .

The impact's blast was so powerful that it unleashed a force equivalent to 300 million atom bombs.

For six days , Jupiter was throttled by 21 separate impacts from the comet's fragments, which produced giant plumes of debris that rose 3000 kilometres above the cloud tops.

Shoemaker Levy 9 made it clear that very destructive collisions were still possible.

The impact of SL9 with Jupiter left a huge dark spot one Earth diameter across.

Jupiter is a massive planet with a powerful gravitational influence, and since it is also one of the outer planets, some scientists think it might act as a cosmic vacuum cleaner.

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