Jupiter: The Mighty Gas Giant in Our Solar System
Explore Jupiter, 5th planet from the sun, 300x Earth's mass. Named after Roman god Jove, gas giant with 17 moons. Discover its Great Red Spot storm & impacts like Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994. 8 Relevant
Jupiter: The Mighty Gas Giant in Our Solar System
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Jupiter By: BrittanyJohnson Period 5
The Basics • Is the 5th planet from the sun. • 300 times more massive than earth • Named after the roman chief god, Jove. • Also called a gas giant.
Distances and Such • 778,000,000 km from the sun • .41 earth days to rotate • 142,800 km across in diameter • 317.8 times the mass of earth.
Satellites • Jupiter has 17 moons, the same as Uranus. • This is a picture of Io, known as the most colorful object in space. • Io is covered with volcanoes and is one of the most active moons in the universe.
What is it like? • This is a picture of the Great red spot. • It is actually a huge storm, in which 20 earths could fit. • Jupiter is believed to have a small solid core, but is mostly made of hydrogen and helium gas.
Crash! • This is a picture of the scars received when shoemaker-levy9 crashed into Jupiter in 1994. • Shoemaker was a smaller probe from Galileo. • Was also visited by Voyager in 1977
http://www.worldbookonline.com pictures http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/overview.html picture World book enyclopedia 2000, vol .10. Works Cited
