1
: encircled or marked with or as if with rings
2
: composed or formed of rings
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Scientists previously thought Mimas was just a big chunk of ice before NASA’s Cassini mission studied Saturn and some of its 146 moons by orbiting the ringed planet between 2004 and 2017.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
Theoretically, liquid water should flow beneath Mimas’s icy crust: Mimas has an elliptical orbit around Saturn that sends the moon swinging closer to the ringed planet and then farther away from it.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
Previous research by Jared and others has documented some of the ringed caecilians’ unorthodox parenting methods.
—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
The Wonka actor was photographed wearing a black sleeveless, hooded Stüssy sweatshirt with ringed cut-outs at his shoulders.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
The monarch’s black, white and yellow ringed caterpillars also eat common milkweed leaves, then form jewel-like chrysalides, which hang from those leaves.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
The wondrous ringed world will look especially lovely through a telescope at this time.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
Saturn Reaches Equinox Saturn goes through seasons just like Earth does, though, with the ringed planet’s 29-Earth-year orbit, each season lasts for more than seven years.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
Webb science teams previously released spectacular views of the Solar System’s other ringed planets—Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus—along with its first observations of Mars.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 30 June 2023
Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
Theoretically, liquid water should flow beneath Mimas’s icy crust: Mimas has an elliptical orbit around Saturn that sends the moon swinging closer to the ringed planet and then farther away from it.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
Previous research by Jared and others has documented some of the ringed caecilians’ unorthodox parenting methods.
—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
The Wonka actor was photographed wearing a black sleeveless, hooded Stüssy sweatshirt with ringed cut-outs at his shoulders.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
The monarch’s black, white and yellow ringed caterpillars also eat common milkweed leaves, then form jewel-like chrysalides, which hang from those leaves.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
The wondrous ringed world will look especially lovely through a telescope at this time.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
Saturn Reaches Equinox Saturn goes through seasons just like Earth does, though, with the ringed planet’s 29-Earth-year orbit, each season lasts for more than seven years.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
Webb science teams previously released spectacular views of the Solar System’s other ringed planets—Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus—along with its first observations of Mars.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 30 June 2023
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“Ringed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ringed. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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