Jupiter is the 5th planet from the Sun and over 1,300 Earths could fit inside it. It spins rapidly, completing a day in just over 10 hours, and has a year lasting over 12 Earth years. Jupiter has a solid core surrounded by liquid metallic hydrogen and molecular hydrogen. It has a thick atmosphere composed of hydrogen and helium with constant storms, including the Giant Red Spot which has raged for over 150 years. Jupiter has over 67 known moons, with the four largest called the Galilean satellites - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

1. Jupiter
Windswept Giant

2. Visual Scale of Size
Visual Scale: If the sun were the
door to this room, then the earth
would be a nickel and Jupiter would
be a basketball.
If Jupiter got any more massive it
would actually start to get
smaller because it would
pull in on itself.

3. Stats
• 5th planet from our sun, 778 million km.
• Mass: 1.898E27 kg, Radius: 69,911 km
• Jupiter day: 10 hours, spins so fast it
bulges at the equator.
Fastest spinner in the solar system.
Jupiter year: 4,333 earth days,
= 12 earth years
Gaseous ball, predicted to have a
solid core.

4. Interior
• Interior: rocky core,
liquid metallic
hydrogen,
molecular hydrogen

5. Atmosphere
• Clouds on Jupiter are only about 50 km
thick.
• Atmosphere is H2 and He
• Storms are constant, the giant red
• spot has been raging
• for hundreds of years.

6. Features
• Mass: 1.898E27 kg, Radius: 69,911 km
• Strong magnetic field
• and radiation belts

7. Auroras
Auroras exist all
the time.
Strong solar
winds flatten
out the belts and
make the auroras
pancake shaped.

8. Features
• Ring: Suprise of Voyager
• 1 photograph
• Voyager 1 images gave the
• first indication of a faint ring around Jupiter.
The location of the ring is indicated by the
white line. The thickness of the ring is
estimated to be 30 km or less. Jupiter is about
142,000 km in diameter. The ring has a
diameter of about 250,000 km. North is at 11:00
(Voyager 1, P-21259)

9. Great Red Spot
• Actually a storm that has been visible for
at least 150 years, maybe more.
• Jupiter has no
continents
or other structures
to break it up.

10. Amazing Satellites
(moons)
• At least
67 known
satellites.
Most famous
four are called
the Galilean
satellites

11. Names

12. Famous
four
data

13. Io
• Been described as pizza-like.
Full of active
volcanoes
found so far.

14. Covered V
in sulfur.
Innermost
moon
sidereal year: 42 hours,
1.769 earth days
sidereal day:
synchronous

15. Europa
Surface smooth
and made mostly
of ice
sidereal year: 85 hours
sidereal day: 3.551 earth days
synchronous
Could have
water.
Could be life here?
Smallest of the four but 6th largest in SS

16. Callisto
Called Dead moon
because no activity
at all
4th in order
Sidereal year: 17
days
sidereal day: 16.6 earth days
Second largest in
Jovian System
Full of Craters

17. Oldest landscape
in SS.
Half water ice,
half rocky material
Most likely to be explored
Ocean likely there, could sustain life?
Voyager 1 image of Jupiter's moon Callisto from a distance of 350,000 km. The
large ‘bulls-eye’ at the top is believed to be an impact basin formed early in
Callisto's history. The bright center of the basin is about 600 km across and the
outer ring is about 2,600 km across.

18. Ganymede
Largest in SS
Sidereal year:
172 hours
Sidereal day:
7.155 earth days
1:2:4 resonance
with Europa and
Io

19. Ganymede
• Has mountains, valleys
craters and
lava flows.
Only moon in SS
known to have
a magnetic field

20. Order of orbit

21. Websites
• http://www.space.com/27428-cubesat-mission-
europa-jupiter.html
• http://www.space.com/27272-mars-antares-
star-skywatching.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4-
GK58gZYI

22. Top ten Moon Facts
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMLK
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