Images of Jupiter Impact

As some of you may know, it has recently been reported that Jupiter appears to have been hit by an object up to 2 km in diameter. It was first noticed by the Australian amateur, Anthony Wesley on 19th July. He reported his observations of a 'black scar' around the size of the Earth near Jupiter's southern pole to NASA. It's not yet known what the object was, although its thought most likely a comet.
 
As you may imagine, many of the world's biggest telescopes including the HST have taken images, and the Faulkes Telescope Project has been collaborating with a group led by Professor Alan Fitzsimmons at Queens University, Belfast.

For your interest, we attach some preliminary colour composite images taken by FT North - we're intending to image Jupiter in coming months to see how this impact area evolves.

In the attached images, the impact area is the black 'smudge' towards the bottom of Jupiter.
 
You can read more about the impact here ...
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Jupiter_impact