Jupiter's Rings

Find out more at http://missionjuno.swri.edu and http://www.nasa.gov/juno about Jupiter and NASA's Juno mission.

Jupiter has its own set of faint, dusty rings. The rings will not be a focus of study for Juno, but do they pose any threat to the spacecraft as it passes near them?

Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI

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[Vishal Sathyan]

The rings of Jupiter are made of dust, that's why it's dim. But, they are also beautiful and bright in this video.

[Epicpenney123]

I didn't think Jupiter's rings were that clear! Well, Saturn's Is Still Better ;)

[2eelShmeal]

thanks! =)

[2eelShmeal]

Yes, myself also. You can download an interactive called "Eyes on the solar system"

With it, you can virtually cruise around our SS and see the positions of all bodies that are being tracked, you can keep up wtih mission juno and all the other missions ever launched. IT IS INCREDIBLE!

I recommend you check it out. Have fun!

[2eelShmeal]

Thanks.

Um, I don't know... The leading theory now is that a Mars size object collided with (possibly) a then-slightly larger earth at an oblique angle, giving the earth it's rotation. All the material then reformed in orbit.

But yes, if that is true, that means earth had rings!! How cool is that!?

thanks.

[nasastronaut]

wow very intersting

[2eelShmeal]

Aha! You didn't know Jupiter had rings, did you? As a matter of fact so does Uranus, Neptune and of course Saturn. It's thought that the rocky planets may themselves have had ring systems at some earlier point.