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A gas giant JUPITER
A gas giant
JUPITER
• It takes Jupiter 9 hours and 55 minutes to rotate a day. (fastest in the solar system)
• It takes Jupiter 12 earth years to make one year on Jupiter. (a complete rotation around the sun.)
TIME
• The atmosphere on Jupiter is mostly made up of hydrogen (H2) and helium (He).
• The air is made up of mostly gases (90%hydrogen, 10%heilem, methane water, and ammonia)
• The core of Jupiter is about the size of earth.• The average cloud temperature on Jupiter is 121 degrees
C.• Jupiter doesn't have a solid core but the gasses just get
denser with more depth.
WHAT JUPITER'S AIR IS MADE UP OF
• Jupiter has 67 known moons (Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Amalthea Himalia Elar Pasiphae Sinope LysitheaCarme Ananke Leda Thebe Adrastea. Metis Callirrhoe. Themisto. Megaclite. Tayget Chaldene Harpalyke Kalyke Iocaste Erinome Isonoe Praxidike Autonoe Thyone Hermippe Aitne Eurydome Euanthe Euporie Orthosie Sponde Kale Pasithee Hegemone Mneme Aoede Thelxinoe Arche Kallichore Helike Carpo Eukelade Cyllene Kore Herse)
• Some of Jupiter's moons have oceans underneath the crust that may be able to support life.
• Most of Jupiter's moons have harsh weather conditions and volcanic activity
MOONS OF JUPITER
• Jupiter's rings were discovered in the 1970s• Jupiter has three faint rings composed of dust and small
rock.• The rings were formed by dust from the moons
RINGS
• The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is a storm that is the size of about two or three earths.
• This storm has been raging on for hundreds of years.• The storm spins counterclockwise, which can take up to
about about 6 days.• NASA has confirmed that the Great Red
Spot has shrank in the passed 15 years.• the storm is shrinking 580 miles per year.
JUPITER'S GREAT RED SPOT
• Jupiter will be visited by Juno in 2016.• First visited by Pioneer 10 in 1973• Then by pioneer 11, voyager 1 and voyager 21990,
Ulysses (ESA), and 2006 New Horizons.
EXPLORATIONS AND VISITS
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Rings
http://www.universetoday.com/23914/rotation-of-jupiter/
http://www.courses.vcu.edu/PHY-rhg/astron/html/mod/012/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/15may_grs
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