QUESTION: If there is more than one ring around Jupiter, how far are the rings apart? ANSWER from Paul Harvey on October 12, 1995: Here is the best answer I could find in my astronomy books (since it is not something I know off the top of my head!). Jupiter has one ring only and it is quite close, relatively speaking, to the planet. It is only 50,000 kilometers above the surface (the surface is 70,000 km from the center). Paul Harvey