JUPITER

ABOUT JUPITER'S NAME

• Romans saw a bright planet in the sky
• It was the largest in the sky
• So, they named it after their king of gods, and the God of sky and thunder

POSITION IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun
• Orbits 483.8 miles from the sun
• It has a usual orbit

SIZE AND AXIS

• Jupiter does one full rotation in less than 10 hours
• Largest planet
• It would take 1,321 Earths to completely fill up Jupiter
• Jupiter is eleven Earths wide
• 318 times the mass of Earth

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GRAVITY

• Someone who weighs one-hundred pounds on Earth would weigh 236.4 on Jupiter
• Take your weight times 2.528 to get your weight on Jupiter

ORBIT AND ATMOSPHERE

• Jupiter's orbit would be 12 Earth years
• Similar to Earth, Jupiter has four layers of atmosphere
• Jupiter also has a atmosphere like Earth, there are storms and lightning

TEMPERATURE

• Usually it's 145 degrees Celcius on Jupiter
• 234 degrees Fahrenheit
• This would melt any human and any human-made suit

COMPOSITION

• Jupiter is a gas giant
• 90% hydrogen 10% helium
• Other materials: water, metane, and ammonia
• The core is thought to have some rock and metallic material
• There is no solid surface

MOONS AND RINGS

• Jupiter has 67 moons
• 4 rings
• The rings are hardly visible
• Ganymede is Jupiter's largest moon
• Callisto is the second largest and is the background

SURVIVABILITY

• Humans wouldn't be able to survive
• The temperatures are too extreme
• There is no solid surface

STORMS ON JUPITER

• The Great Red Spot
• 300- year old storm more than twice the size of Earth
• The Little Red Spot
• Three smaller storms all joined together
• Half the size of The Great Red Spot

DISCOVERING JUPITER

• While the Romans "found" Jupiter and named it, Galileo was said to be the first person to observe it, and confirm what it looks like

RESOURCES

• Book- Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe Jupiter: The Spotted Gas Giant
• Internet- universetoday.com
• Internet- NASA.gov
• Internet- coolcosmos.edu