Sentences with phrase «planetary rings also»
It is likely that planetary rings also exist beyond the Solar System.
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Some of them, such as Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, additionally possess planetary rings — a collection of still smaller bodies of different sizes that also orbit a planet.
Taken together, the two results make a compelling case for young rings, says Larry Esposito, a planetary scientist also at CU Boulder who has long believed the rings to be old.
By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.