The following images are from a paper by Kevin Zahnle (NASA Ames Research Center) and Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (University of Chicago) titled "The Collision of Jupiter and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9." These images are from a computer simulation of a 10^28 erg comet explosion in Jupiter. Colors represent temperature: blue for the coldest and red for the hottest. The blue horizontal line towards the bottom of each image represents the Jovian tropopause.

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