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| Description: Jupiter’s Ring and Torus Cutaway diagram of Jupiter’s rings, which are generated from debris blasted off the inner moons Adrastea, Metis, Amalthea, and Thebe. (b) A portion of Jupiter’s faint ring system, photographed by the New Horizons spacecraft heading to Pluto. The outer three bright rings are composed of pebble- to rock-sized fragments. The rest is mostly dust. The brightest portion of the ring is about 6000 km wide. While the outer edge of the ring is sharply defined, the inner edge is somewhat fuzzy. A tenuous sheet of material extends from the ring’s inner edge all the way down to the planet’s cloud tops. Picture Stats: Views: 583 Filesize: 167.57kB Height: 900 Width: 1200 Source: https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=16354 |