Jupiter

Mikayla Sivulka and Michael Duran

Jupiter was discovered blue because it was facing the sun in a certain way which made it look blue.

The History

Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter in Italy in 1610 and it was found looking through a telescope. Its name means mythology Zeus. This is Jupiter’s symbol.

SOLAR SYSTEMo Jupiter is the fifth planet

from the sun. o It is 484 million miles

from the sun.o It takes 433,259 days to

orbit around the sun. o It takes 9 hours and 55

minutes to rotate around the solar system.

Moons

Jupiter has 4 moons:Europa GanymedeCalisto Io

Planet appearanceJupiter looks like a red, orange,

yellow, and brown planet. It also has tan stripes, one black spot

and a red spot that was there for 300 years.

It looks like a huge basket ball.The red spot is bigger than Earth.

Jupiter has one ring that is impossible to see from Earth. We could only see the ring by sending a robot to Jupiter.

Rings

Exploration

No one ever has been on Jupiter before.

But we sent a robot to Jupiter to take a picture and was sent on September 1, 1979 it returned November 13, 1980.

People can’t go on Jupiter because Jupiter is a gassy planet , and people call it the Gas Giant. There is no solution .

Jupiter spins fast for a little bit and than very slow. It has 64 moons and Jupiter has more gravity than Earth. Jupiter is the fourth biggest thing in the sky.

It has a rocky core inside of it. The weather on Jupiter has a lot of dust storms because there is a red and black spot that makes the dust storms over 300 years. If I am 60 pounds on Earth , than I weigh 141.8 pounds on Jupiter.