IUE Observations

International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)

Click here to see IUE's view of Jupiter during one of the impacts.

This Earth-orbiting spacecraft will investigate changes in the light reflected from Jupiter's atmosphere and the effects of the comet impact on Jupiter's atomic hydrogen bulge. The bulge is a region of enhanced atomic hydrogen emission from the planet's atmosphere near the equator. IUE also will examine comet-impact effects on Jupiter's aurorae and on the plasma "torus," or donut-like ring, that encircles the planet near the orbit of one of its moons, Io.

Public Affairs contact:
Michael Finneran
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Md.
(301) 286-5565 voice; 1707 fax
e-mail: mike_finneran@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov

IUE Observations Plans

• IUE Program for SL9 Impacting Jupiter (June 6, 1994).
• IUE Observatory Home Page.

Images

• IUE Spectra of Fragment A Impact (July 16, 1994).
• IUE Spectra of Jupiter (July 17, 1994).

Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page