#ring system

I must say that I have finally found some planner peace, I have been using my a5 ring binder and just updating that system for the past 3 weeks. It isn’t much but I am feeling the relief of consistency and I just hope this feeling last. 🕯️📎

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Uranus: The Haha Funny Name

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is a peculiar world that stands out from the other gas giants for several reasons. First, it's known for its unique tilt. While most planets spin on an axis roughly perpendicular to their orbits, Uranus seems to roll on its side, making it look like it's rotating almost parallel to its orbital plane. This unusual orientation has sparked countless questions among scientists, leaving them pondering the mysteries of its formation.

One of the most fascinating aspects of Uranus is its appearance. It's often described as an "ice giant" due to its composition, which includes a thick atmosphere primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, with traces of water, methane, and ammonia. These elements give Uranus its striking blue-green hue, and the presence of methane in its atmosphere is responsible for its unique color.

Probes like Voyager 2 have provided invaluable insights into this distant planet. In 1986, Voyager 2 made a historic flyby, capturing detailed images of Uranus and its moons, and revealing its strange, featureless appearance. Uranus' lack of distinct cloud bands, unlike Jupiter or Saturn, adds to its enigmatic charm. The probe's data also unveiled its icy ring system, and the discovery of 27 known moons, each with its own peculiarities.

Uranus boasts a turbulent atmosphere with high-speed winds, reaching speeds of up to 560 miles per hour (900 kilometers per hour). The planet experiences extreme seasons, each lasting about 20 Earth years, due to its extreme axial tilt. When one hemisphere faces the Sun, it basks in continuous sunlight for years, while the other is plunged into darkness. This unique weather pattern showcases the dynamic nature of Uranus, where scientists continue to explore the depths of its mysteries. Uranus remains a distant and intriguing world that challenges our understanding of planetary science, inviting us to delve deeper into the wonders of our own solar system.

1st 2 pictures taken from the NASA archives (first one is likely a simulation or model but the 2nd one is from Voyager 2). Last picture was taken by JWST

Crystalline Nebula

Celestial Rings of the Gas Giant

Explore the awe-inspiring beauty of a distant alien planet with its magnificent ring system in this hyper-realistic digital artwork. The composition features a rocky moon in the foreground with detailed craters and a glowing gas giant with vivid storm bands and auroras. Perfect for space enthusiasts, sci-fi fans, and digital art collectors. This high-resolution image is optimized for wallpapers, prints, and creative projects.

Three different gas giants with rings created for our new game.

(NASA)  Saturn's Rings from the Inside Out

Video Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute 

What do Saturn's rings look like from Saturn? Images from the robotic spacecraft Cassini are providing humanity with this unprecedented vantage point as it nears the completion of its mission. Previous to Cassini's Grand Finale orbits, all images of Saturn's majestic ring system were taken from outside of the ringslooking in. Pictured in the inset is the remarkable video, while the spacecraft's positions are depicted in the surrounding animation. Details of the complex rings are evident as the short time-lapse sequence begins, while the paper-thin thickness of the rings becomes apparent near the video's end. The featured images were taken on August 20. Cassini has only a few more orbits around Saturn left before it is directed to dive into the giant planet on September 15.

Mars Perhaps Forming Ring System

Ring system around the planets isn’t rare phenomena. In our Solar system already has four planets its rings: Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune. However, new research results showed that dust from Martian satellites already could be leaving rings around the Red Planet. This situation was assumed much earlier, but what scientists found out is that the process already was begun.

Phobos Ring Destiny

Phobos is one of two Martian satellites discovered in the 19th century. With its irregular shape, Phobos has a radius only of 11 km. What is best known for Phobos is its orbital path. Namely, Phobos orbits only 6,000 km from Mars surface, which is the closest known object to the primary body. Therefore, scientists predicted that in a few million years Phobos will be shredded into pieces thanks to Mars gravity and will settle into a flat ring like Saturn’s. What scientists didn’t expect is that the process perhaps already begun.

As Phobos orbit is too close to the Mars surface, its destiny is to be ripped apart

The team from the Physical Research Laboratory in India analyzed data from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) satellite, which entered orbit around Mars in September 2014, to study the atmospheric composition of the Martian atmosphere. What researchers noticed from the newest data is that Mars is surrounded by dust in the form of proto-rings. Further, they noticed that some of the dust coming from its moons. The rest of dust is made up of interplanetary debris.

On the other side, there is already models based on existing assumptions about how many meteoroids hit Mars and its moons. The team from Physical Research Laboratory compared models with their measurements and found out 0.6 percent of dust surrounded around Mars, comes directly from Phobos and Deimos.

The most of the dust around Mars are made of interplanetary debris, but now scientists calculate that 0.6% comes from its moons which denoting that the ring system already began to forms.

Despite the Indian scientist’s findings MAVEN investigator Laila Andersson isn’t convinced that this necessary means that ring system began with its formation. Although MAVEN equipment isn’t designed for dust, she thinks that before any conclusion needs to use a good dust detector. For now, the MAVEN team didn’t find a good indication that there is significant material in the vicinity of the moons. Still, they are open to that possibility.