Jupiter Facts
How long is Jupiter's day on Earth?
10 hours
How long is Jupiter's year on Earth?
12 Earth years
How big is Jupiter's diameter?
143,000 k.m.
When exactly was Jupiter discovered? (year)
1600's
When were the rings discovered?
1979
How big is the Great Red Spot?
2 Earths
How big is Jupiter's mass?
318 times Earth's mass
How long did the Great Red Spot last?
400 years
How far away is Jupiter from the Sun?
483 million miles
How many moons does Jupiter have?
63 moons
What is the Galilean moon that is covered in craters and not ice?
Calisto
What is the Galilean moon that is covered withice and possibly with craters?
Europa
What are those 4 moons called?
Galilean moons
What is the largest moon out of Jupiter's moons and out of the entire universe?
Ganeymede
What is the Galilean moon that is also known a s the pizza planet?
Io
What is the storm on Jupiter called?
The Great Red Spot
Jupiter, third to moon and venus
What is the 3rd brightest object in night sky?
What kind of volcanoes does Jupiter have?
active sulfuric volcanoes
density and pressure increase. atmosphere becomes liquid then metallic
getting deeper in jupiter what happens?
3. upper ammonia. ammonium hydrosulfide ice. water ice.
how many layers does the cloud cover have and what are they?
20,000 times greater!
how much more powerful is jupiters magnet field than earths?
atmospheric band structure
what are alternations in the wind of Jupiter associated with?
galilean moons
what are jupiter's moons called?
io, europa, ganymede, and callisto
what are the four galilean moons?
a bulge. called rotational flattening
what does the high spinning rate of jupiter cause? what is this effect called?
gases: mostly hydrogen(86.1%) and helium (13.9%)
what is jupiter made up of?
close to the density of water. not very dense at all. metallic core not possible
what is significant about jupiter's density?
similar to terrestrial planets. density decreases as it gets further from the planet
what is significant about these moons?
because it is not a solid surface, different parts rotate at different speeds. considering how big it is, it rotates VERY fast!
what is special about jupiter's rotation?
really large gap or break in the upper cloud layer due to short lived rotating storm
what is the brown oval?
storm like hurrican thats been taking place for 300 years
what is the great red spot?
it is the largest planet. 318 earths
what is the significance of jupiter's mass?
due to convection. cool material sinks causing dark belt and warm material rises causing light zone
why are there colored lines on jupiter?
gravitational compression due to jupiters core realeasing heat that was formed during formation
why does jupiter rotate twice as much energy into space than it recieves from the sun?
may be a result of phosphorus
why is it red?