JUPITER
By: Rebecca Langman
Jupiter’s Symbol
Jupiter’s Origins
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Named after the Roman god of the sky and the
heavens, Jupiter.
This is because of it being the biggest planet.
Discovery of Jupiter
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Galileo Galilei was the first to see Jupiter.
He discovered it when he found four large moons
orbiting Jupiter.
He discovered it with his rudimentary telescope.
Jupiter’s measurments
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Mass: 1.898x10^24
Volume: 1,431,281,810,739,360 Km^3
Density: 1.33 grams per cubic centimeter
Jupiter would sink in a body of water
Gravity: 24.79 m
Jupiter’s atmosphere
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Made up of mostly hydrogen
10% of helium
Little amounts of ammonia, sulfur, methane and
water vapor.
Very thick atmosphere
Distances
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Order from the sun: 5th
Distance from the sun: 741 Km/4.95 AU
Distance from Earth: 628,743,036 to 928,081,020
Km
Temperature
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It varies to -108.15 degrees Celsius to 35,500
degrees Celsius.
That is -7.21 times the temperature of earth and 4.9 times the temperature of Florida.
Composition and appearance
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Jupiter is a gas giant, so it doesn’t have a rocky
surface.
It is made up of liquid molecular hydrogen, liquid
metallic hydrogen, rock and ice.
Jupiter is very large and is a bone/orange color. It
has streaks of red and spots of brown.
Rings
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Jupiter’s rings are dark and faint.
They are made of rock and dust.
They were discovered in 1980.
There are three rings.
Water
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On Jupiter, water is found in the form of water
vapor.
Weather
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The weather is very cold and there a frequent
storms.
Moons
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Jupiter has 67 moons and they were discovered in
1979.
They are small, 6.2 miles in diameter.
What if a human traveled to Jupiter?
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A human being would be crushed by the gravity.
They would also be poisoned by the atmosphere
and would be absorbed.
Something special
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There 100 year long storms on Jupiter!
One famous storm, which was named the red spot,
has been going on for at least 400 years.
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