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On This Day in Space! March 4, 1979: Rings discovered around Jupiter!

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On March 4, 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings.?

Because Jupiter's rings are so thin and faint, it's extremely difficult to see them from Earth with ground-based telescopes. Even for a spacecraft out near Jupiter , the rings essentially invisible unless the cameras look at them edge-on or from an angle where sunlight shines directly through them.?

Since Voyager 1 first saw the rings, other space missions like Juno and Galileo have continued to study them . Scientists believe that the rings formed by comets colliding with Jupiter's moons and kicking dust into the planet's orbit.?

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  • The Exoplanets Channel 13 December 2019 17:13
    Very interesting
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  • Arc Light 17 July 2020 14:59
    Just so you know, the X-15 took off from Edwards AFB under the wing of a B-52 & was airdropped over Delamar Dry Lake, Nevada. The flight to the altitude record wasn't planned, but the rocket engine burned for two seconds longer than expected. The test flight was scheduled to peak at 280,000', but actually reached 314, 750' due to the extra rocket burn time.
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  • Fourth Root 18 July 2020 00:34
    Misleading wording. Bob White did not set the world altitude record on July 17th, 1962. Four Astronauts and two cosmonauts had flown higher prior to his flight. One could say it was the highest manned flight of a winged craft. But that's not the wording that was used.
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  • DrRaviSharma 20 July 2020 13:16
    On this date in 1969, I was part of NASA Apollo Team

    Contributed to Experiments in orbit and on Surface of Moon (ALSEP) etc.also trained astronauts

    Studied containation on and ouside Spacecraft.

    The Moon gave me employment to work for 5 Years on exciting Human Space flight Programs Skylab, Planning of Space Station and Space Shuttle

    See My picture taken with Buzz Aldrin in 2009
    https://www.space.com/india-moon-landing-not-a-failure.html
    I received Apollo Achievement Award from NASA dated July 20, 1969.

    Thanks Hanneke Weitering for today's Historic post

    Ravi
    Dr. Ravi Sharma
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