Ring Planet Jupiter

Jupiter's rings can not enjoy using a telescope. Unlike Saturn's rings is clearly visible from Earth with a small telescope though. Jupiter rings have multiple components, such as rings halo, gossamer main ring or rings.

Ring Halo is the deepest form of thick cloud is at a distance of 92 000 km - 122,500 km core of Jupiter. Increased inclination halo part by interactions with Jupiter's magnetic field. The next component is the main rings are thinner and narrower located at a distance of 122,500 km - 128.940 km from the center of Jupiter with a thickness of 30 km from top to bottom. In this section, there are also large particles, which fills the ring.

The last component of Jupiter's ring is a faint Gossamer rings and divided into two parts, namely Amalthea ring (which is close to Jupiter) and Thebe ring. Amalthea ring starts from satellite to the Jupiter Amalthea within a distance of 181,000 km and has a uniform brightness. While the Thebe ring located in the outer ring until Amalthea is at a distance of 222,000 km Jupiter. The ring is much weaker, but also thicker than the ring Amalthea, but when seen from the high resolution images taken by Galileo ring Tebe top and bottom edges will appear brighter than its center.

Rings of Jupiter was weak compared to the rings of Saturn and consists of reddish dark matter. That is, the material forming the ring is not in Saturn but as ice rock fragments and dust. The image taken by Voyager 2 shows that the particles forming the ring is very small, with only about 10 microns in diameter or less. You could say that the particles in the ring is not greater than the smoke particles or house dust. At the top and bottom of the ring to spread a cloud of particles, electrostatic fields are pushed out of the ring with the magnetic field of Jupiter.

If viewed from the position, the rings are within the Jupiter Roche limit is very close to the planet. In this area, there will be a satellite destroyed by the gravitational pull of the planet. This indicates that the Jupiter ring formed from a satellite has failed. Furthermore, the observations also showed that the Galileo spacecraft ring formed from a powder meteor hitting the surface of Jupiter satellites. During the journey of 7 years, Galileo was able to save thousands of collisions of particles in the rings of Jupiter 2002-2003.