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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, approximately 89,000 miles wide. Its atmosphere is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, with trace amounts of other gases. The temperature in Jupiter's clouds is around -234 degrees Fahrenheit, while the core temperature is over 43,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Jupiter has at least 79 moons, the four largest being called the Galilean satellites. It would take over six years for a spacecraft to travel the 2.5 billion miles to reach Jupiter from Earth. There is no surface on Jupiter and only trace amounts of water, making life unlikely.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, approximately 89,000 miles wide. Its atmosphere is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, with trace amounts of other gases. The temperature in Jupiter's clouds is around -234 degrees Fahrenheit, while the core temperature is over 43,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Jupiter has at least 79 moons, the four largest being called the Galilean satellites. It would take over six years for a spacecraft to travel the 2.5 billion miles to reach Jupiter from Earth. There is no surface on Jupiter and only trace amounts of water, making life unlikely.

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JUPITER

What is Jupiter?
Jupiter is a planet. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar
system. It is approximately 143,000 kilometers (about
89,000 miles) wide at its equator. Jupiter is so large that all
of the other planets in the solar system could fit inside it.
More than 1,300 Earths would fit inside Jupiter.
Jupiter is like a star in composition. If Jupiter had been
about 80 times more massive, it would have become a star
rather than a planet.
How far is Jupiter from the sun?

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. Jupiter's


average distance from the sun is around
5.2 astronomical units (780.08 million km) . This
distance is a little more than five times the
distance from Earth to the sun. The planet
Jupiter is actually named after Jupiter, the king
of the Roman gods in mythology.
JUPITER

What is the temperature?

What is the surface makeup of?

What is the atmosphere?

How many moons does it have?


• The temperature in the clouds
of Jupiter is about minus 145
WHAT IS THE degrees Celsius (minus 234 degrees
TEMPERATURE Fahrenheit). The temperature near
the planet's center is much, much
ON JUPITER?
hotter. The core temperature may
be about 24,000 degrees Celsius
(43,000 degrees Fahrenheit).
WHAT IS THE SURFACE MAKEUP OF?

• The surface of Jupiter is 61.42 billion km² which is made up


of almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with some other trace
gases. There is no firm surface on Jupiter, so if you tried to stand
on the planet, you sink down and be crushed by the intense
pressure inside the planet.
WHAT IS THE ATMOSPHERE?

• The atmosphere of Jupiter is made up of hydrogen. The simple,


basic gas, a prime ingredient on the sun, this is 90 percent of the
atmosphere. Nearly 10 percent is composed of helium. A very
small fraction of the atmosphere is made up of compounds such as
ammonia, sulfur, methane, and water vapor.
HOW MANY MOONS
DOES IT HAVE?

Jupiter has at least 79


known moons. The largest
four are called Io, Europa,
Ganymede, and Callisto.
These four moons are called
the Galilean satellites
because they were first
seen in 1610 by the
astronomer Galileo Galilei.
HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE FOR US TO
REACH THERE?

• It would take us a little over than six years to reach Jupiter.


• The Galileo spacecraft launched in October 1989. Took just over six
years to reach the gas giant, arriving in December 1995. But the
craft took a very circuitous route, traveling a distance of 2.5 billion
miles. It traveled around Venus, Earth, and the asteroid Gaspra to
reach Jupiter.
WHAT'S UNIQUE?
• Jupiter Has Been Visited 7
Times By Spacecrafts
• Jupiter’s Magnetic Field Is
14 Times Stronger Than
Earth’s
• Jupiter Has 79 Moons
• Jupiter Has Rings
• The Great Red Spot Has
Been Around For Quite A
Long Time
• The Clouds On Jupiter Are
50 km Thick
IS THERE LIFE/WATER ON JUPITER/WHAT DOES IT LOO
LIKE?

• There is a small amount of water, but it is not ”on” Jupiter.


It is in the form of water vapor in the cloud tops. Scientists
were surprised to find only trace amounts of water on
Jupiter. Also there is no life on Jupiter found until today.
IS LIFE SUSTAINABLE ON JUPITER?

•While there have been no samples taken that could test for
microscopic life on the planet but there is quite a bit of evidence
that shows there is no possible way for life.
WOULD YOU TRAVEL TO JUPITER?

• I would not go to Jupiter because if I go to Jupiter it


would take a little more than 7 years to even reach
there, and I can't even stand on Jupiter because I will
sink and be compressed because of the gases.
SOURCES

• Dunbar, Brian. “What Is Jupiter?” NASA, NASA, 1 June 2015,


www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-jupiter-58.html.

• Cain, Fraser. “How Far Is Jupiter from the Sun?” Universe Today, 4 May 2017,
www.universetoday.com/44615/distance-from-the-sun-to-jupiter/.
• “Ask an Astronomer.” Cool Cosmos, coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/99-How-many-moons-does-Jupiter-
have-.
• Giphy. “Jupiter GIFs - Get the Best GIF on GIPHY.” GIPHY, giphy.com/explore/jupiter.
• Coffey, Jerry. “Is There Water on Jupiter?” Universe Today, 25 Dec. 2015,
www.universetoday.com/15148/is-there-water-on-jupiter/.
THANK YOU!
BY, ANGELA

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