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Jupiter's rings

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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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  1. Department of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York, Stonybrook, L.I., New York, 11790

    Tobias Owen

  2. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125

    G. Edward Danielson & Virginia L. Hall

  3. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138

    Allan F. Cook

  4. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 91103

    Candice Hansen & Thomas C. Duxbury

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Owen, T., Danielson, G., Cook, A. et al. Jupiter's rings. Nature 281, 442–446 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/281442a0

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