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.