Sentence examples for a tenuous ring of from inspiring English sources

Enceladus's current activity is responsible for Saturn's E ring, a tenuous ring of micrometre-sized particles of water ice condensed from vapour ejected by the geysers.

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Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, may have a tenuous ring system of its own, along with a tenuous atmosphere.

Extending from 128 to 207 Saturn radii, far beyond the other rings, is the outermost, a vast, tenuous ring of dust shed from impacts on the moon Phoebe.

But for any impacting object to hit a tenuous ring hard enough to tilt it and set off such reverberations, both teams agree, it would first have to disintegrate into a cloud of fine debris that can hit a broad area of ring.

Between the A and F rings, distributed along the orbit of the inner moon Atlas, is a tenuous band of material probably shed by the moon.

Debris from collisions between Kuiper belt objects and the smaller moons, with their relatively low escape velocities, may produce a tenuous dusty ring.

Half of the screens showed Uranus, looking like a big eye surrounded by its tenuous rings; the other half showed the Y-shaped cloud that was all that was left of Challenger and its crew of seven.

Rhea has a tenuous atmosphere of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

His response revealed a tenuous grasp of his situation.

It is a tenuous line of work — a lesson he learned from his time in Indianapolis.