In this image released by NASA/JPL showing a large impact on Jupiter's south polar region captured on Monday by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Photo NASA/JPL/AP.
Images taken by Nasa on Monday show a scar in the atmosphere near the south pole of the gas giant.
The images, taken by the space agency's infrared telescope in Hawaii, come on the 15th anniversary of another comet strike.
In 1994, Jupiter was bombarded by pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena captured the new images after receiving a tip from an amateur astronomer the night before.
