{"id":26451,"date":"2025-04-02T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26451"},"modified":"2025-04-02T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:56:10","slug":"26451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26451","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2503\/JupiterRing_WebbSchmidt_1080.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter&#8217;s main ring was discovered in 1979 by NASA&#8217;s passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but its origin was then a mystery. Data from NASA&#8217;s Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, however, confirmed the hypothesis that this ring was created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons. As a small meteoroid strikes tiny Metis, for example, it will bore into the moon, vaporize, and explode dirt and dust off into a Jovian orbit. The featured image of Jupiter in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope shows not only Jupiter and its clouds, but this ring as well. Jupiter&#8217;s Great Red Spot (GRS) &#8212; in comparatively light color on the right, Jupiter&#8217;s large moon Europa &#8212; in the center of diffraction spikes on the left, and Europa&#8217;s shadow &#8212; next to the GRS &#8212; are also visible. Several features in the image are not yet well understood, including the seemingly separated cloud layer on Jupiter&#8217;s right limb. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250402.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter&#8217;s main ring was discovered in 1979 by NASA&#8217;s passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but its origin was then a mystery. Data from NASA&#8217;s Galileo spacecraft <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26451\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-26451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26452,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451\/revisions\/26452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}