Posted on 07/20/2022 2:46:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's main ring was discovered in 1979 by NASA's passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but its origin was then a mystery. Data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, however, confirmed the hypothesis that this ring was created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons. As a small meteoroid strikes tiny Metis, for example, it will bore into the moon, vaporize, and explode dirt and dust off into a Jovian orbit. The featured image of Jupiter in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope shows not only Jupiter and its clouds, but this ring as well. Also visible is Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) -- in comparatively light color on the right, Jupiter's large moon Europa -- in the center of diffraction spikes on the left, and Europa's shadow -- next to the GRS. Several features in the image are not yet well understood, including the seemingly separated cloud layer on Jupiter's right limb.
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Cool. I didn’t know Jupiter even had a ring!
Can we send Biden and the Ho to see that ring up close?
Or throw them down a well - it’s cheaper.
That monstrous storm on Jupiter has gone on for my entire lifetime of 80+ years. May be there is a volcano under there spewing out ash because how can any storm last so long?
“Why does Jupiter have rings?”
I put this down to not having the proper cleaning products.
The Mr Clean Cleaning Eraser would make short work of this.
Clearly you don't know my ex!
All gas giants have rings. Even Uranus has rings
Volcano’s are coming back in Style, there’s That.
Ice Mountains of Pluto as seen from New Horizon spacecraft.
https://twitter.com/Sciencenature14/status/1549773146730946560
LOL
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