What is "ring systems"

Usage examples of "ring systems".

Up close it looked like planetary ring systems Ravna had known all her life.

The disintegration of small moons can likewise account for the ring systems of the three other giant planets.

In some worlds there will be many suns in the daytime sky, many moons in the heavens at night, or great particle ring systems soaring from horizon to horizon.

Since it was above the great ring systems and had a downward view partly blocked by them, no one would choose it as a preferred site for planetary surveillance.

I could see free-flying dots at random between planets--those I assumed were titansrebut there were heavy concentrations of life-forms in the gas-giant atmos-pheres, in their ring systems, and in the three separate asteroid belts between planetary orbits.

Only Saturn, in the old Earth system, could even approach this sight, and those few observers who'd seen both ring systems up close unanimously considered Collet's far more dramatic.

In fact, for many centuries the astronomers of Earth were not able to see the ring systems of Jupiter or Uranus or Neptune, so assumed there were none, with the typical logic of our species.

They could have unusual configurations of moons, heavier or lighter gravity, variable or multiple suns, or even be surrounded by ring systems of moonlets.