Sandia National Laboratories physicists Mark Boslough and Dave Crawford predicted the Hubble Space Telescope would see a rising vapor plume as the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crashed into the far side of Jupiter (Figure 1) in 1994. And sure enough, the plume produced by the impact matched Sandia’s computational analysis (Figure 2). A member of the Hubble team told Boslough that the images of the plume’s rise and descent “were so eerily like Sandia’s predicted models that I showed them side by side for years afterwards.”
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