Rings [ID: 2]

Saturn may have the most famous rings but Jupiter has some too. Jupiter’s rings are best imaged when looking towards the sun because of the way small particles scatter light. This is a familiar process that allows us for example to see dust hanging in the air when we look at the beam of light from a projector.

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  1. comment by Polarcuspian on 2022-09-29 18:00 UT

    On Saturn, the rings are either ice or rock.

    The way Jupiter has been described, it sounds as if the reflective ice is in the rings.

    The rock rings seem not to have reflective merit the way ice has.

    Last read from an app of 1st & 2nd semesters in uni, called RK Technologies, saturns rings are 3 meters thick.

    • comment by Polarcuspian on 2022-09-29 18:04 UT

      Above picture is one of Galileo`s tools, from a bag of about 18 or so items.

      Galileo was very interested in how the moons of Jupiter could lead to better navigation coordinates. They were more consistant than our Luna moon near Earth.

  2. comment by RishabhJain on 2021-02-25 08:34 UT

    Like the other outer planets, Saturn is a gas giant. That means it’s mostly hydrogen and helium. It probably lacks a solid surface, though its semisolid core, which contains metals such as iron and nickel, is much denser than the outer layers

  3. comment by RishabhJain on 2021-02-25 08:33 UT

    Like the other outer planets, Saturn is a gas giant. That means it’s mostly hydrogen and helium. It probably lacks a solid surface, though its semisolid core, which contains metals such as iron and nickel, is much denser than the outer layers