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English: The New Horizons spacecraft took the best images of Jupiter's charcoal-black rings as it approached and then looked back at Jupiter in February 2007. This sequence of pictures from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) shows the well-defined lanes of gravel- to boulder-sized material composing the bulk of the rings; labels point out how these narrow rings are confined in their orbits by small "shepherding" moons (Metis and Adrastea).
Date (published 1 May 2007)
Source Catalog page · Full-res (GIF)
Author NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA09921.

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Credit and attribution belongs to the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) team, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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