... But Jupiter's magnetic field is extremely large and ionized material expelled from the volcanic moon Io is trapped in it creating light shows 1,000 times more intense than Earth's auroral storms . ...
... Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft , but their origin has always been a mystery. ... spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter now confirms that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons ...
... There are complex tidal resonances between some of Saturn'smoons and the ring system: some of the moons, the so-called "shepherding satellites" (i.e. Atlas , Prometheus and Pandora ) are clearly important in keeping the rings in place; Mimas seems to be ...
... the opportunity to measure the rings' thickness and search for undiscovered moons ... Space Telescope , two of Saturn's known moons are visible as star like objects to ... Tomorrow's picture: Jupiter's Rings . ...
... There may be colored bands like Jupiter's but they are hidden from view by the ... Like Jupiter's, they are very dark but like Saturn's they are composed of fairly ... Voyager 2 discovered 10 small moons in addition to the 5 large ones already known. ...
... moon, and 15 years later announced that he had made calculations about a small moon ... moon -- a satellite of our Moon ("On a photographic search for a satellite of the ...
... It was about half the size as Jupiter's Great Red Spot (about the same diameter as ... Neptune has 13 known moons; 7 small named ones and Triton plus four discovered in ... more on the 2002 moonsx . data on the moons discovered in 2002 . ...
... on the left , the Hubble Space Telescope has captured Jupiter's Great Red Spot in various states over the past several years ... Tomorrow's picture: An Asteroid'sMoon . < Archive | Index | Search | ...
... Accumulation of dust and gas into larger bodies such as stars, planets and moons. ... Observatory where he studied Saturn and (with Lassell ) discovered its moon Hyperion ...