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Jupiter has a system of four thin rings composed of rocks and dust particles surrounding its atmosphere in an equatorial plane.
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Wilkinson, J. (2016). Jupiter: The Gas Giant. In: The Solar System in Close-Up. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27629-8_9
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