What do you know about Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus?
1. What do you know
about Jupiter, Saturn,
and Uranus?
2. Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus are the outer planets.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun
All of the three planets are gas giants with many
moons.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and
the largest of gas giant.
If it were hollow, it is so big that the rest of the planet
could fit inside it
It has at least 63 moons that orbit Jupiter
3. Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet is the
solar system.
It has a system of rings but they are too dark
to be seen from Earth
It has a extremely strongest magnetic field.
If viewed from the Earth, it is the third
brightest object in the night sky.
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5. Jupiter atmosphere
Jupiter’s atmosphere has a weather
system called the Great red spot that has
been raging for centuries.
It is three times bigger than the size of
the Earth.
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7. Gas giant
A gas giant is a very large planet made
mostly of gases.
Jupiter atmosphere is consist of
hydrogen and helium.
8. Jupiter’s Moon
Jupiter has at least 63 Moons.
Galileo was the first person to see the
four largest moons through his telescope
in 1610..
They are about the size of the Earth’s
Moon.
9. Io, or Jupiter I
Io has mare active volcanoes than any other
object in the solar system.
The volcanoes give off sulfur ( a chemical
element with atomic number 16). The sulfur
shows up as yellows, oranges, and greenish
yellow.
Io is the solar system’s most colorful moon.
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11. Europa
Europa is the smoothest object in the
solar system. It’s crust is frozen, but a
liquid ocean might lie beneath the crust.
Some scientists believe there may be
living organisms on Europa.
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13. Ganymede
It is the largest moon in the solar system.
It is bigger than Mercury and Pluto.
Ice covers one third of its surface. It may
even have a saltwater ocean!
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15. Callisto
Callisto is more heavily crated than any
other object in the solar system. The
impact of meteorite have left large cracks
on its surface.
Scientists think that callisto has a frozen
ocean beneath its crust.
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18. Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is a gas giant.
It’s atmosphere is consist of mostly hydrogen and helium.
Saturn is very large but it has only a small amount of matter.
The Voyager space probe explore Saturn’s rings. It showed
that the particles that make up rings range in size from tiny
grains to boulders.
They are probably made of ice, dust, and chunks of rock.
19. Galileo’s Handles
When Galileo saw Saturn rings through his
telescope he was surprised.
He saw a planet with handles.
The handles were actually the brilliant ring
system that orbit the planet.
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21. Moons of Saturn
Saturn has over 150 moons, or moon-like objects,
revolving around it, Saturn has 62
confirmed moons.
Like Jupiter’s moons, most of Saturn’s moons are
small.
It’s large Moon is Titan that may be the most
unusual moon in the solar system.
It has an atmosphere and it is largest than Mercury.
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24. Uranus
In 178, Willem Herschel discovered a
seventh planet orbiting the Sun.
Uranus is a gas giant with a ring system
and has at least 27 Moons.
Its atmosphere is hydrogen, helium, and
methane.
25. Uranus
Uranus is so cold that the methane became liquid.
Tiny drops of liquid methane form a thin cloud that
cover the planet it gives Uranus its blue-green look.
Like other gas giant Uranus has also a ring system and
many Moons, But unlike Saturn’s bright ring system the
rings of Uranus are dark and hard to see with Earth-
based telescopes.
The rings was discovered by a space probe in 1977.
26. Rolling through space
Uranus rotates on its side. No one knows
for sure why Uranus has this odd tilt.
Scientists think that a very large object
may have collided with the planet when
the solar system was still forming. This
bump may have knocked Uranus onto its
side.
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29. The Moos of Uranus
Uranus has at least 27 Moons and many more yet be
discovered.
The Moons that were closer to Uranus we first seen
with telescopes during 1700s.
They are larger Moons with deep valleys, craters, and
steep ridges.
