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 FoldedZero on 2023-11-28 21:37 UT

    ISPYWITHMYLITTLEC

  2. comment by Chen Jiageng-18 on 2023-08-14 00:50 UT

    icy dust rings

  3. comment by Neckar-51 on 2023-05-24 11:00 UT

    saturn rings are icy

  4. comment by Neujmina-41 on 2023-05-24 10:58 UT

    a disc or ring, orbiting an astronomical object, that is composed of solid material such as dust and moonlets, and is a common component of satellite systems around giant planets

  5. comment by Ovruch-79 on 2023-05-24 10:57 UT

    saturn rings are icy

  6. comment by Durbin-85 on 2023-05-24 10:54 UT

    wow this is very interesting

  7. comment by Kovacia-14 on 2023-05-24 10:54 UT

    Jupiter's rings are formed from dust particles hurled up by micro-meteor impacts on Jupiter's small inner moons and captured into orbit

  8. comment by Saif_alfalasi1 on 2023-05-24 10:46 UT

    True, Also the main cause of this is that the rings, which are made up of large chunks of ice, are falling on the planet as icy rain because of the planet's intense gravity

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. comment by Kelt-9b on 2020-04-05 04:52 UT

    Ring around the planet was first observed by voyager 2 spacecraft but now we have a detailed picture of them rings explain a lot of things about the origin of the planet the disturbances in the young solar system. Saturn too has much more wider and thicker rings than we are able to see they were observed by the spitzer telescope, likewise we could get a better understanding of the main constituents of Jupiter's rings by viewing them in another wavelength of light. rings are worth studying.

    • comment by Burian-34 on 2020-04-29 13:03 UT

      i agree

  13. comment by Eviesobczak-69 on 2020-01-19 04:44 UT
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  14. comment by BrianSwift on 2019-07-24 01:23 UT

    Ring were successfully imaged back on PJ03 from JNCE_2016346_03R00112, https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=2576

    What is the source of the above image?

  15. comment by Sirrah-43 on 2019-05-12 21:28 UT

    I am not sure that many people are aware of the fact that Jupiter has rings, and I believe that this would be one of the important pictures to take given the opportunity.

  16. comment by bzznzo on 2019-04-22 15:57 UT

    crossing my fingers for ideal lighting conditions and geometry!