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Jupiter's rings

Abstract

Voyager 2 observations of the jovian ring system discovered by Voyager 1 are presented. The rings were observed both above and below the jovian equatorial plane and at extremely low and high phase angles. This ring system seems to represent a steady state configuration for small particles that are slowly moving in toward Jupiter. It must be resupplied from sources well outside Roche's limit.

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Owen, T., Danielson, G. E., Hall, V. L., Cook, A. F., Hansen, C., Duxbury, T. C.. 1979-10-11. Jupiter's rings. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19790069860

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