A new study has found why Jupiter doesn’t have rings like the neighboring gas giant Saturn.
Saturn’s rings are made up largely of ice, and some of them may come from comets that are also made of ice.
Jupiter has a ring system known as Jupiter’s rings, or the Jupiter ring system, which consists of small dust particles, and this ring system is so faint that it was not noticed until 1979, thanks to the NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft.
“I’ve long been interested in why Jupiter doesn’t have more amazing rings that would match Saturn,” said UCLA astrophysicist Stephen Kane. And if Jupiter had it, it would appear brighter to us, because the planet is much closer to Saturn.”
A study published last Thursday in the Planetary Science Journa and on the arXiv website and transmitted by “Russia Today” yesterday, stated that the reason for the absence of Jupiter’s rings is relatively simple, which is that its massive moons prevent them from forming.
The researchers ran a computer simulation of each of the orbits of Jupiter and the four main moons that surround it: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, and Professor Kane said: “We found that the moons of Jupiter, one of which is the largest in our solar system, quickly destroy any large rings that may form, as a result, without Jupiter could potentially have big rings at any time in the past.”