  A small drop that splashes into a deep liquid sometimes reappears as a small
rising jet, for example when a water drop splashes into a pool or when coffee
drips into a cup. Here we describe that the growing and rising jet continuously
redistributes its fluid to maintain a universal shape originating from a
surface tension based deceleration of the jet; the shape is universal in the
sense that the shape of the rising jet is the same at all times; only the
scaling depends on fluid parameters and deceleration. An inviscid equation of
motion for the jet is proposed assuming a time dependent but uniform
deceleration; the equation of motion is made dimensionless by using a
generalized time-dependent capillary length ${\lambda_c}$ and is solved
numerically. As a solution a concave shape function is found that is fully
determined by three measurable physical parameters: deceleration, mass density
and surface tension; it is found that the surface tension based deceleration of
the jet scales quadratic with the size of the jet base. Deceleration values
derived from the jet shape are in good agreement with deceleration values
calculated from the time plot of the height of the rising jet.
