Jupiter
By: Cierra Yoshikawa & Kristel
Curameng
MAIN FACTS
• 5th planet from Sun
• Largest planet in solar
system
– More than 1 thousand
Earths could fit
• 62 known moons
– 4 largest: Callisto,
Europa, Ganymede
and Io
– Named after
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• Takes 12yrs to orbit
the sun
• Rotates in 10 hrs
• Mass of 1.9 x 10^27
– 318 times mass of
Earth
• Surface temp: 185.8 F (152 K)
Juptier’s Statistics
Jupiters Rotation
• Jupiter has the fastest
rotation of all the
planets in the Solar
System, completing
one rotation on its axis
every 9.9 hours
• Due to its rapid
rotation it causes the
planet‘s equator to
bulge out.
Jupiters Layers
• The gases which Jupiter
is mostly made of
change to liquid inside
Jupiter
• The first liquid layer inside
Jupiter is the liquid
hydrogen layer. Under
the liquid hydrogen layer
is a liquid metallic
hydrogen layer.
• At the deepest part of
Jupiter is the core.
Atmosphere
• Atmosphere:
– Mainly hydrogen and helium, small
amounts of methane, ammonia, water
vapor and other compounds.
– Powerful winds dominate the
atmosphere with criss-crossing jet
streams, lightning and huge hurricanelike storms like the Great Red Spot.
Weather
• Colorful latitudinal
bands, atmospheric
clouds and storms
illustrates dynamic
weather
• White "zones" are
higher and cooler.
• Dark "bands" are lower
and warmer.
• Cloud pattern
changes within hrs or
days
Great Red Spot
• Great Red Spot and its
surroundings was
obtained by Voyager 1 on
Feb. 25, 1979, when the
spacecraft was 9.2 million
kilometers (5.7 million
miles) from Jupiter.
• This is a huge, high storm
that has been swirling
around Jupiter for
hundreds of years. It’s
easily visible from
telescopes here on Earth,
and even in larger
backyard telescopes.
Jupiter’s Rings
• Has a faint ring, invisible from Earth
• Composed of inner halo, main ring, Gossamer rings
– Composed of dust particles
Work Cited
• http://www.solarviews.com/eng/jupiter.htm
• http://nineplanets.org/jupiter.html
• http://www.kidscosmos.org/kidstuff/jupiter-facts.html
• http://www.buzzle.com/articles/jupiterfacts.html