Jupiter The Fifth Planet From The Sun

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JupiterThe Fifth Planet From The Sun

• By Brittany Powell and
• Nick kreklow

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How big is it

• Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar
  system.
• It is so big all the eight of the other planets
  could fit inside of it if it was hallow.
• More than 1,300 earths could fit inside Jupiter
  if it was hallow.

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Jupiter's moons

• Jupiter has 39 moons.
• It has the largest moon in the solar system.
• Jupiter's 4 biggest moon was discovered by
  Galileo.
• The Galilean moons are bigger than some planets.

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Jupiters rings

• Jupiter has 3 rings.
• Its rings are very thin.
• They are made of solar dust and rocky mater.

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The Great Red Spot

• The Great Red Spot on Jupiters surface is a
  hurricane.
• The Great Red Spot is so big it could swallow up
  the earth
• The Great Red Spot is a mystery
• The Great Red Spot is a storm

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Spacecraft at Jupiter

• Jupiter has been visited by some unmanned
  spacecrafts.
• Pioneer 10 in 1973.
• Voyager 1 in 1979

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How far is it

• Jupiter is the 5th planet from the sun.
• It is 483,000,000 miles away from the sun.
• It takes 12 earth years.

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What makes up Jupiter?

• Jupiter is made of gases, hydrogen, and helium.
• It is mostly made of hydrogen.
• The surface is watery.
• The core is rocky and very hot.

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Belts and zones

• Jupiter looks striped because of the colorful
  zones, or bands, that are separated by dark
  belts.
• The colors include swirls of blue, orange, rust,
  yellow, light brown and white storm clouds.

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Jovian Planets

• Jupiter is one of the 4 outer planets. It is the
  closest to Earth of all the outer planets.
• These outer planets are also called Jovian
  planets, which means like Jupiter because they
  are made up mostly of whirling gases.

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How Jupiter Got Its Name

• Early sky watchers named Jupiter after the Roman
  king of the gods and ruler of the sky.

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A Day on Jupiter

• Jupiter spins on its axis faster than any other
  planet.
• One Jupiter day is less than 10 hours.

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Collision on Jupiter

• Jupiter was hit by a comet in 1994, which sent
  giant fountains of gas thousands of miles into
  the atmosphere.

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Sources

• www.astronomical.org
• Furniss, Tim. The Solar System. Raintree
  Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 2001.
• Brimner, Larry Dane. Jupiter. Grolier
  Publishing, 1999.