A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE PLANET JUPITER INCLUDING ITS COMPONENTS A REPORT CREATED BY STUDENTS OF SAINT CATHERINE'S SCHOOL BAMBANG, NUEVA VIZCAYA CREDITS TO THE OWNERS OF THE REPORT: Jan Phillip Gamponia Jolina Mae Valdez Lady Erika Fernandez Ronnrick Manuel Roxanne Hangdaan

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5. = It is the fifth planet from the Sun and
the largest planet in the Solar System.
= Called the Lord of Heavens.
= It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that
of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass
of all the other planets in the Solar System
combined.

7. How large is Jupiter compared to
Earth?
Jupiter has a diameter of about 88,695 miles
(142,800 kilometers) which is more than 11
times the diameter of Earth. It's volume is over
1,300 times the volume of Earth. This means
that Jupiter is so big that over 1,000 Earths could
fit inside of it. Jupiter is so big that it weighs two
and a half times the weight of all of the other
eight planets put together!

8. The Earth could fit
inside Jupiter over
1000 times.

9. There is no single person who is credited with the
discovery of Jupiter. Jupiter is one of the five planets
that can be seen in the night sky without using a
telescope or binoculars. Galileo was the first to
observe Jupiter with a telescope, as Jupiter can be
seen with the naked eye, the ancients probably the
ones who discovered it. Jupiter can be seen from
planet earth, so it is hard to tell who actually saw it
first! We will never know when Jupiter was
discovered.

10. Structure of Jupiter
Jupiter is composed primarily
of gaseous and liquid matter. It is the
largest of four gas giants as well as
the largest planet in the Solar System
with a Diameter of 142,984 km at
its equator.

11. Thus, the atmosphere is approximately 75%
hydrogen and 24% helium by mass, with the
remaining one percent of the mass
consisting of other elements. The interior
contains denser materials such that the
distribution is roughly 71% hydrogen, 24%
helium and 5% other elements by mass.
The atmosphere contains trace amounts
of methane, water vapor, ammonia,
and silicon-based compounds. There are also
traces of carbon, ethane, hydrogen
sulfide, neon, oxygen, phosphine, and sulfur
Compositionof Jupiter

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14. Mass of Jupiter
Jupiter's mass is 2.5 times that of all the other planets in
the Solar System combined—this is so massive that
its barycenter with the Sun lies above the Sun's surface at
1.068 solar radii from the Sun's center.
Jupiter's volume is that of about 1,321 Earths, yet the
planet is only 318 times as massive.Jupiter's radius is
about 1/10 the radius of the Sun, and its mass is 0.001
times the mass of the Sun, so the density of the two
bodies is similar.

16. What arethe stripes of color on Jupiter?
The stripes of color on Jupiter are its bands. There
are two types of bands on Jupiter. The light colored
bands are called Zones. These are regions where
gas in Jupiter's atmosphere is rising upwards.

17. The dark bands are called Belts.
These are regions where the
gas in Jupiter's atmosphere is
sinking downwards.

18. The gravity on Jupiter is greater than the
gravity on Earth because Jupiter is more
massive. Although Jupiter is a great deal larger
in size, its surface gravity is just 2.4 times that
of the surface gravity of Earth. This is because
Jupiter is mostly made up of gases. If you
weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh
214 pounds on Jupiter.
How strong is the gravity on
Jupiter?

20. Moons of Jupiter

21. Moons of Jupiter
The planet Jupiter has 67 confirmed
moons. This gives it the largest
retinue of moons with "reasonably
secure" orbits of any planet in the
Solar System. The most massive of
them, the four Galilean moons.

22. Galilean Moons
It was Galileo Galilei who
discovered the Jupiter’s four
largest moon in 1610 that we
called the Galilean Moons and
were the first objects found to
orbit a body that was neither
Earth nor the Sun, and these
four moons that mostly seen
are Io, Europa, Callisto, and
ganymede.

23. Io

24. Europa

25. Callisto

26. Ganymede

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28. Orbit and Rotation of Jupiter

29. The axial tilt of Jupiter is relatively
small: only 3.13°. As a result this planet
does not experience
significant seasonal changes, in
contrast to Earth and Mars for
example.

30. Jupiter's rotation is the fastest of all the Solar System's
planets, completing a rotation on its axis in slightly less
than ten hours; this creates an equatorial bulge easily
seen through an Earth-based amateur telescope. The
planet is shaped as an oblate spheroid, meaning that
the diameter across its equator is longer than the
diameter measured between its poles. On Jupiter, the
equatorial diameter is 9275 km longer than the diameter
measured through the poles.

31. Since Jupiter is a gas planet, it does not rotate as a
solid sphere. Jupiter's equator rotates a bit faster
than its polar regions at a speed of 28,273
miles/hour.
For this reason, its middle has been stretched out.
Rather than round it is short and fat. Kind of like when
someone spins pizza dough really fast to stretch it out.

33. The Great Red Spot of
Jupiter!
Jupiter's Great Red Spot
is a huge, long-lasting
storm in the atmosphere
of the Southern
Hemisphere of Jupiter. It
is an anti-cyclonic (high
pressure) storm, much
like a gargantuan
hurricane. Its color is
actually pink to orange.

34. Robert Hooke
was the popular
scientist who
discovered the
“Great Red Spot
of Jupiter” in
1664.

35. The Rings of Jupiter
The planet Jupiter has a system of rings,
known as the rings of Jupiter or the Jovian
ring system. It was the third ring system to
be discovered in the Solar System, after
those of Saturn and Uranus. It was first
observed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space
probe and thoroughly investigated in the
1990s by the Galileo orbiter.

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MAIN RING
GOSSAMER RING
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39. Flyby missions
Spacecraft Closest approach Distance
Pioneer 10 December 3, 1973 130,000 km
Pioneer 11 December 4, 1974 34,000 km
Voyager 1 March 5, 1979 349,000 km
Voyager 2 July 9, 1979 570,000 km
Ulysses February 8, 1992 408,894 km
February 4, 2004 120,000,000 km
Cassini December 30, 2000 10,000,000 km
New Horizons February 28, 2007 2,304,535 km

42. Scientists believe that Jupiter's gravitational field is
pushing comets and asteroids which are
approaching the Earth away from the inner
planets, diverting them to the outer planets and
thus averting possible catastrophe. Basically, three
types of objects, namely, Main belt asteroids,
Kuiper belt comets and Oort cloud comets pose a
threat to both Jupiter and the Earth. Of these, the
Main belt asteroids follow an orbit which is
between that of Mars and Jupiter. Kuiper belt
comets are found to follow a path which is close to
the orbit of the Neptune. Long term comets are
known as Oort cloud comets.

46. Jan Phillip Gamponia
Jolina Mae Valdez
Lady Erika Fernandez
Ronnrick Manuel
Roxanne Hangdaan