Earth and Jupiter
By: Mark Paul Ebol and Laurence Toyongan
Discovery
of Jupiter
NASA lists
• Discovery – by ancient
Babylonians.
• called it “Marduk”.
• Greek
and Romans -> Zeus
• 1610 – Galileo turned his
telescope on it.
“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the
way the heavens go”
- Galileo Galilei
Chemical Composition
• composition of atmosphere is similar
to that of the sun—mostly hydrogen
and helium.
• Deep in the pressure and
temperature increase it compresses
hydrogen gas into a liquid.
• Jupiter is a gas planetthere is no solid surface.
• if one stepped onto the
planet, he would sink into
it and eventually get
crushed by the massive
increase in pressure
Distance from the Sun
Minimum Distance from Sun: 741 million km
(483,682,810 miles)
Maximum Distance from Sun: 817 million km
(508 million miles)
Jupiter
Average Temp. -> -234* F
(-483*C)
Tilt - 3.13°
Moons
 Galileo discovered its 4 largest moons.
 Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
 They are known as Galilean satellites.
Io - the most
volcanically active
body in our solar
system.
Europa - liquid
ocean may lie
beneath its frozen
crust.
has about 99% the
diameter of the
planet Mercury but
only about a third
of its mass.
64 confirmed Moons
Ganymede - the
largest planetary
moon and the only
moon in the solar
system known to
have its own
magnetic field.
 first observed in 1979 by the
Voyager 1 space probe.
 consists mainly of dust.
 hard to see unlike
Saturn’s rings.
 thickness of the ring ~ to
be 30 km or less
 four main components
• a thick inner torus
of particles - halo
ring
• exceptionally thin main ring
• two wide and thick
outer - gossamer
rings
Rings of Jupiter
Interesting Facts about Jupiter
Jupiter has 2.5 times the mass of all the
other planets in the Solar System
combined.
Jupiter got any more massive, it
would actually get smaller and dense.
Astronomers call Jupiter a failed star.
Not really appropriate, it’s like saying
your house is a failed skyscraper.
Stars generate their energy through
the fusion of mass together.
Jupiter would need more than 70
times its current mass to ignite
nuclear fusion.
After crashing dozens of Jupiters
together, you might have a chance to
make a new star.
References
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All about
Earth
Earth formed around
4.54 billion
the third planet from the sun
Earth is the fifth largest of the
planets in the solar system
The only known planet
that can sustain life
71 % of Earth is covered with water
Most of it is ocean
The Earth Orbits Around the
sun in 365 and ¼ days
24 hours to complete 1 turn
and producing night and day
The distance
between the
Earth to the
Sun is
92,955,820
miles
Earth has a diameter of roughly
8,000 miles (13,000 km.)
The Moon
Earth has
only one
Luna or
moon
The moon also
affects the earth
weather
condition
specially
causing the tides
The Earth’s Chemical Composition
Earth’s atmosphere is
compose of 47% oxygen which
comes from the plants that
grows along the earth’s crust
Interesting Facts about Earth
Interesting Facts about Earth
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_t
he_Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_
history_of_Earth
http://www.space.com/54-earth-historycomposition-and-atmosphere.html
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/spa
ce/solar-system/earth/
http://www.planetsforkids.org/planet-earth.html
http://nineplanets.org/earth.html
http://50-amazing-facts-about-the-earth.org.html