The Jovian Planets

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The Jovian Planets
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Jupiter

• Largest planet in our solar system
• Jupiter is a ball of dense hydrogen, helium,
  water, nitrogen and other gases over a tiny rocky
  core
• Atmosphere is mainly hydrogen, helium and methane
• Great Red Spot is gigantic hurricane-like storm
• Has rings, but are made up of small, dark
  particles, not ice like Saturns

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Jupiter
You can see the red spot and four of Jupiters
more than 60 moons.
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Saturn

• At least 31 moons
• Ring system made of thousands of water ice
  particles
• Atmosphere is hydrogen, helium, and methane

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Saturn
Voyager II took this picture.
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Uranus

• Icy and has faint rings
• Bluish color because methane gas in the
  atmosphere absorbs red light and reflects blue
  light
• Rotates on its side
• 16 moons

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Uranus
Voyager II also took this picture.
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Neptune

• Blue because of methane
• Faint rings
• Storms like the Great Red Spot on Jupiter
• Neptunes moon, Titan, is the largest moon to
  orbit backwards around a planet
• 13 moons

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Neptune
The Great Dark Spot is visible. It is no
longer there.
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Pluto

• Dwarf planet
• Takes sunlight 5 ½ hours to reach Pluto
• Orbit is 248 Earth years
• In the Kuiper Belt
• Sometimes, its orbit swings inside Neptunes
  orbit
• 2/3 the size of our moon
• 3 moons

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Pluto
Pluto and Charon The best picture as of yet
taken by the Hubble Space Telescope