Sentence examples for tenuous ring 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.

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.

The craft also studied Jupiter's Little Red Spot and the planet's magnetosphere and tenuous ring system.

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

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Other small satellites have tenuous rings or ring arcs associated with them, including the co-orbital moons Janus and Epimetheus, Methone, Anthe, and Pallene.

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.

For instance, newly found arcs in the remote and tenuous G ring, reminiscent of the ring arcs of the planet Neptune, are probably caused by the gravitational influence of a nearby moonlet, yet to be discovered.

It revolves around Saturn in a prograde, circular orbit at a distance of 294,660 km (183,090 miles), which is within the planet's broad, tenuous E ring.

Dione has a diameter of 1,120 km (696 miles) and revolves around Saturn in a prograde, nearly circular orbit at a mean distance of 377,400 km (234,500 miles), which is within the outer part of Saturn's tenuous E ring.