Jupiter is a very interesting planet. It is very much different from our planet Earth. Its days are a lot shorter than and Earth day. Then the years though are very long. The giant, Jupiter, is named after and old Greek god. Jupiter actually has rings, though very little. It is one of my favorite planet’s. Jupiter’s basic facts are very different from Earth’s facts. Jupiter is not fully sphere. It is more of an oval, egg shape. It gets this form since of how fast it spins. One day for Jupiter is nine hours and fifty-five minutes. That is around fourteen hours less than Earth. When the planet is rotating on its axis, since it goes so fast, pushes out its atmosphere a bit. This explains why Jupiter’s equatorial diameter is 142,984 kilometers …show more content…
This is because of how far Jupiter is from the sun, our star. Jupiter is 778,340,821 kilometers from the sun. The time it takes for Jupiter to orbit the sun one time is 11.9 years or 4,333 days. Jupiter is eleven times bigger than Earth. Jupiter has many moons, Sixty-seven actually. There are only four moons that scientists are very interested on. These four moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The reasons scientists are so interested in these moons are since they might have found evidence of small life forms, such as bacteria and planets on these moons. The moon Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system. It would be interesting to find life on these planets. Jupiter has a pretty informative history. Supposedly Babylonian astronomers discovered Jupiter in the seventh and eighth century of BC. When Galileo discovered the four moons of Jupiter in 1610, this was the first proof of an object orbiting something else than Earth. That discovery provided more evidence for the Sun-centered model. Jupiter is supposedly the fourth brightest object in our solar system. Only the Sun, Moon, and Venus are brighter than Jupiter. Surprisingly on the surface of Jupiter, it is hotter than the sun. The surface is 24,000 degrees Celsius. The surface of the sun is 5,504 degrees Celsius. The clouds of Jupiter are -145 Celsius. That is the totally opposite of the
One of my all time favorite music piece is, Drops Of Jupiter, by the band Train. And I am going to compare it to one of the music pieces that we studied in class, Wozzeck, Act 3, Scene 4, composed by Alban Berg. I chose to compare these two pieces, because they are both very different, but after researching both of these pieces, and reading over the notes that I took in class, I realized that these two pieces also have a few similarities. And I though it would be very interesting to compare the two.
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt is told through the point of view of Jack, who tells the story of Joseph, the foster child who comes into Jack’s family. Joseph is a troubled kid who came to Jack’s family from an institution after an incident of attacking a teacher. We also learn that Joseph has a daughter name Jupiter and there are many things from Joseph’s past that haunts him, which forms his troubled child character. The story written by Gary D. Schmidt wasnt relative to author's life personally but learned of kids in situations of having their own children when speaking with a friend who was a doctor and knew of this happening. Schmidt found this baffling and played into this when writing Orbiting Jupiter. Giving a theme to this story
Uranus is one of the Jovian planets and like the others it has a short rotation period. Uranus’s day is 17.2 hours. Its revolution around the sun however is slightly more than 84 years. It is the seventh planet from the sun at a distance of 1.78 billion miles.
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- “Jupiter Lucetius”, or “Jupiter of the Light” (This is relating to lightning bolts, not to daylight)
Jupiter was the ruler of the gods. He is also known as Zeus to the Greeks. The King of Gods in Greek Mythology Zeus was the ruler of the sky, and had the power to create thunderstorms and lightning as well as earthquakes. He was the child of Cronus and Rhea. As the story goes he was their sixth child, and the father to protect him from being overthrown had eaten the five previous children. Zeus was taken to a city called Crete and hidden from his father. As Zeus grew older and learned of what happened he found a potion to make his father regurgitate the other children. Once this happened they all teamed up and killed their father. Zeus then became the ruler of Mount Olympus, and head of the new line of Gods. Jupiter was the predominant power holder of Roman Gods. He was ruler of the sky, the daylight, all the weather, and even the thunder and lightening.(Ruck,Carl and Staples, Danny, pg 19)
2,870,990,000 km (19.218 AU) from the Sun, Uranus hangs on the wall of space as a mysterious blue green planet. With a mass of 8.683e25 kg and a diameter of 51,118 km at the equator, Uranus is the third largest planet in our solar system. It has been described as a planet that was slugged a few billion years ago by a large onrushing object, knocked down (never to get up), and now proceeds to roll around an 84-year orbit on its belly. As the strangest of the Jovian planets, the description is accurate. Uranus has a 17 hour and 14 minute day and takes 84 years to make its way about the sun with an axis tilted at around 90° with retrograde rotation. Stranger still is the fact that Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic, hence the expression "on its belly".
Right alongside the fifth and largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, orbits a moon only about the same size as Earth’s moon. On this moon, is an icy surface that scientists are trying to uncover. Due to the presence of what they believe to be water, there is the possibility of life on this moon named Europa.
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has yet to be discovered as in depth as Juno will. NASA New Frontiers recently established the Juno Mission to observe Jupiter (Ionescu 1). The spacecraft is currently on route to Jupiter and it is set to arrive in 2016. Juno will orbit Jupiter thirty-three times total before shutting down (Ionescu 1). Juno will observe Jupiter with deeper observation than can be seen by a telescope. The Juno Spacecraft is a project made to discover Jupiter’s high winds, a possible water source, and the planetary structure.
There are many interesting facts about the planets. They are classified in two different categories, which is either a Terrestrial Planet or a Gas Giant. Take Mercury for example, it is one of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System. Also, Mercury may contain ice, it slowly rotates around the Sun so it exposes all of it sides to the Sun’s strong rays, so it’s hard to visualize whether the ice remains solid. Mars has various aspects of its own; some scientists discovered that this planet has water upon its surface. This discovery was encountered by the NASA’s spacecraft Odyssey.
In the 1970’s a few other spacecraft’s, such as Voyager 1 and 2 and Pioneer 10 and 11, scouted Jupiter but they were unable to stay for an extended period of time and the amount of information they brought back to Earth was limited. Scientist wanted a spacecraft that could stick around for an extended period of time and gather more detailed information about Jupiter’s environment thus the idea of Galileo was formed.
On 7 January 1610 Galileo observed with his telescope stars all close to Jupiter, and in a straight line. On January 10th, Galileo noticed that one of them had disappeared. Within a few days he thought that they were orbiting Jupiter: He had discovered three of Jupiter's four largest moons, He discovered the fourth on January 13th. These moons are now called Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Galileo named the group of four stars, in honor of his business support group, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Cosimo's three brothers. Later astronomers, however, renamed them Galilean satellites in honor of the one who discovered them.
The gas giants are a collection of planets in our solar system. As can be told from their name, they are mostly composed of differing mixtures of gases and ices. The gas and ice composition in question varies among the different planets. This mix of gases gives much of the planets an extremely thick atmosphere. At the very center of a gas giant is a core of liquid heavy metals. The gas giants are also called Jovian planets, taken from the largest planet in our solar system: Jupiter. Due to the fact the the majority of a gas giant planet is gas, the planet isn’t very dense and therefore, very large as a result. In fact, all of the gas giants are vastly larger than all of the terrestrial planets. Another common factor of the gas giants are their large amount of moons. The terrestrial planet, Mars, has the largest amount of moons, 2. The amount of moons of Mars is dwarfed in comparison to Saturn’s and Jupiter’s moo...
Saturn has many interesting characteristics, it interacts with the Sun and its moons, and the missions to Saturn have provided scientists with abundant information. The sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the solar system is Saturn. Saturn displays its stunning rings, making it one of the most interesting planets. Saturn has fifty-three known moons, more than any other planet, and as a result of quite a few missions, countless new facts about Saturn have been discovered and are still being discovered today.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. It includes 4 rings. It has 67 moons too. The surface temperature is -108 degrees celsius. Jupiter is the fourth shiniest object in the the sky. Jupiter has the shortest amount of days, hence 9 hours and 55 minutes. Jupiter will orbit the sun every 118 Earth years. The red spot on Jupiter is an enormous storm on the planet. The storm has occurred for 350 years. 3 Earths can fit in the red