News Release Archive: Solar System > Jupiter

1995 (continued)

• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-35 21. Hubble Photo Gallery of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites This is a Hubble telescope "family portrait" of Jupiter's four largest moons. (More)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-18 22. Hubble Tracks Jupiter Storms The Hubble telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere that will be critical for planning observations for the Galileo space probe when it arrives... (More)
• 3/4/1995 STScI-1995-15 23. Comet Fragment Slams into Jupiter In July 1994, 21 chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The Hubble telescope recorded this spectacular event. ... (More)
• 2/23/1995 STScI-1995-12 24. Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere on Jupiter's Moon, Europa Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's moon, Europa. (More)

1994

• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-46 25. Month Long Evolution of the D/G Jupiter Impact Sites from Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 This series of snapshots, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows evolution of the comet P/Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-44 26. Jupiter's Upper Atmospheric Winds Revealed in Ultraviolet Images by Hubble Telescope These four NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter, as seen in visible (violet) and far-ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, show the remarkable... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-45 27. Hubble Sees Auroral Emission Arcs Following the k Impact In the Jupiter campaign, scientists wanted to see how the comet collisions affected the Jovian aurorae, rapid and irregular displays of colorful... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-48 28. Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision In the weeks following comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's spectacular July collision with Jupiter, a team of Hubble telescope astronomers has pored over imaging and spectroscopic... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-43 29. Evolution of the P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 "Gang of Four" Region This series of eight NASA Hubble Space Telescope "snapshots" shows the evolution of the P-Q complex, also called the "gang of four' region, of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-47 30. Jupiter Mapping Traces Changes in Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Sites This series of color-composite maps of Jupiter, assembled from images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, allows astronomers to trace changes... (More)