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The Structure of Jupiter's Ring System as Revealed by the Galileo Imaging Experiment
Maureen E. Ockert-Bell,Joseph A. Burns,Ingrid Daubar,Peter C. Thomas,Joseph Veverka,M. J. S. Belton,Kenneth P. Klaasen +6 more
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The tenuous jovian ring system (normal optical depths <10−5) has three components: the halo, main ring, and gossamer ring as mentioned in this paper, which are observed during four orbits of Galileo's nominal mission, when 25 clear-filter images of the rings were taken at spatial resolutions of 23 to 134 km/pixel; the ring appeared fortuitously in an additional 11 images.About:
This article is published in Icarus.The article was published on 1999-04-01. It has received 106 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Jupiter & Ring (chemistry).read more
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The Exoplanet Handbook
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Cassini imaging of Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and rings.
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The formation of Jupiter's faint rings
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TL;DR: Observations by the Galileo spacecraft and the Keck telescope showed that Jupiter's outermost (gossamer) ring is actually two rings circumscribed by the orbits of the small satellites Amalthea and Thebe, suggesting that faint rings may accompany all small inner satellites of the other jovian planets.
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