The following 10 images document the most significant discoveries of the Galileo mission.
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The Structure of Jupiter's Gossamer Ring
Jupiter's rings are seen in a mosaic of five images taken by the Solid State Imaging camera
aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft on October 5, 1996The spacecraft was located only about 0.15
degrees above the ring plane, making the images highly foreshortened. The appearance and
geometry of these rings is intimately connected with the size, orbital position, and orbital
inclinations of the four small inner satellites Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea and Thebe. Based on the
information in these images the rings are a short lived dynamic phenomena that is the result of
small dust particles being ejected from the moons as a result of impacts due to energetic particles
in the magnetosphere.
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