Jupiter's Rings
			
		
		
			Credit: NASA, Voyager Project
		
		
			Astronomers using NASA's
Voyager 
spacecraft to search for a ring system
around Jupiter discovered these faint rings in 1979.
Unlike Saturn's bright rings
which are composed of chunks of rock and ice,
Jupiter's rings 
appear to consist of
fine particles of dust.  One possibility is that the dust is produced
by impacts with Jupiter's inner moons.  This false color image has
been computer enhanced.