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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[2eelShmeal]

@BurtonRGA7 thanks! =)

[BurtonRGA7]

@2eelShmeal

many thx for that recommendation - im gonna check it out.

for tracing planets and other celestial objects i use starry night, it's very useful for planning a look up to the sky with a telescope :)

[2eelShmeal]

@BurtonRGA7 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!

[BurtonRGA7]

dont let others tell you something like this is a waste of money (look at the horrendous sums of money that was given to those a... of bankers in the financial crisis) - science is imo the most important thing humanity must achieve.

[BurtonRGA7]

@2eelShmeal

for me this theory of the forming of our moon is very logical, especially if u look at the other (i think it's three more) theories dealing with this topic...

and i also wanna use this comment to express my appreciation for all the people involved in the Juno project.

[2eelShmeal]

@BurtonRGA7 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.

[BurtonRGA7]

@2eelShmeal

yea and one terrestial planet seemed to have a very dense one, which eventually formed a moon... our moon :)

[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.