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Shepherd Moons
The New Horizons spacecraft took the best images of Jupiter's
charcoal-black rings as it approached and then looked back at Jupiter in
February 2007. This sequence of pictures from the Long Range
Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) shows the well-defined lanes of gravel- to
boulder-sized material composing the bulk of the rings; labels point out
how these narrow rings are confined in their orbits by small "shepherding"
moons (Metis and Adrastea).
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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