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Mooning over the dust rings of Jupiter

New images taken by the Galileo spacecraft reveal that dust blasted off four tiny moons of Jupiter during collisions with interplanetary debris continually replenish the planet’s faint dust rings.

 

References:

1998. Martian moon Phobos hip-deep in powder. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Press Release (Sept. 11).

Veverka, J. 1998. Galileo finds Jupiter's rings formed by dust blasted off small moons. Cornell University Press Briefing (Sept. 15). Available at http://www.news.cornell.edu/imonth98/Sept98.html.

 

Further Readings:

Mars Global Surveyor information and images of Phobos are available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov.

Sources:

Philip R. Christensen
Arizona State University
Department of Geology
Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

Joseph Veverka
Cornell University
328 Space Sciences Building
Ithaca, NY 14853-6801

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 12, September 19, 1998, p. 182.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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