The reason behind Jupiter’s rings
The HinduWhen the words “rings” and “planets” are mentioned in the same sentence, most of us immediately think of Saturn. While Voyager 1 discovered Jupiter’s rings during its flyby in 1979, Voyager 2 made the definitive discovery of Neptune’s rings during its flyby in 1989, after evidence of its existence first arose in the mid-1980s. Between 1996 and 1997, Galileo captured more than 30 images of Jupiter’s rings and small moons during three orbits of the solar system’s largest planet. The fact that the four, small inner moons provided for Jupiter’s rings and that the outermost ring was in fact two rings embedded within one another were revealed by scientists on September 15, 1998. The lord of the rings The four small, inner moons of Jupiter are responsible for the planet’s rings.
History of this topic
Astronomers solve the mystery of Jupiter’s missing rings
The Independent
Why does Saturn have rings and Jupiter doesn't? A computer model may have figured it out
Salon
The rings around Neptune
The Hindu
Discovering the rings of Uranus
The HinduDiscover Related