Jupiter

levels of red light caused by methane in its atmosphere is thought to be the cause of this bright blue tint. Scientists have found that Neptune and Uranus are more likely to be ice giants rather than gas giants, making them different to Saturn and Jupiter. Due to their younger age, it is thought that they were unable to draw on the vast hydrogen…

Titan is the largest moon in the Saturn system and the second largest in the solar system, second to Jupiter 's moon Ganymede. Titan is a very complex world, in fact, scientists believe it is similar to how Earth would have looked in it 's early years. It 's atmosphere is composed of 95% nitrogen and 5% methane. Titan has methane rivers, lakes, and even…

Neptune is one of the four large planets in our Solar System known as Gas Giants. It is the eighth planet in order from the Sun, and was seen through a telescope for the first time on the 23rd of September 1846. Keeping to the traditional naming system used for all the previous planets, Neptune was given its name based on the Roman god of the sea, in reference to Greek and Roman mythology. General Information: Neptune has a vivid blue colouration to its layer of cloud cover. Higher…

Saturn’s Description: Saturn is known as the “Jewel of our solar system.” It is the second largest planet! (After Jupiter.) Saturn is 75 times larger than Earth, and more than 800 Earths could fit inside of it. Even though Saturn looks solid, Saturn is made of gas, and is known as a “gas giant.” The gas is mostly hydrogen and helium. Saturn is like a ghost. If you landed a rocket on Saturn, it would sink through 60,000 miles of swirling gasses, and you would eventually reach Saturn’s…

Galileo Galilei, a man known for greatly improving the telescope, discovering Jupiter’s four moons, and being the guy who experimented with falling objects at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Born on February 15th of 1564 in Pisa, Italy, Galileo was the first child of Vicenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. Galileo started going to school at the Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa when he and his family moved to Florence in 1574. For college, Galileo went to the University of Pisa to study medicine,…

system. Despite being the smallest circumbinary planet detected to this date, the inner planet, Kepler-47 b still has a radius of 3.0±0.1 Earth radii. In addition, too small to be measured directly, has been determined to have a 3-α upper limit of 2 Jupiter masses. This determination is based on non-detection of timing variations of stellar orbit. As the mass of planet is not known which means its density also remains undetermined. This in return means that it’s not…

There are many unique contrasts between Jovian and Terrestrial Planets. Firstly, Jovian Planets are visibly bigger than the Terrestrial Planets, which, are notably smaller. The reason, a Jovian Planet is bigger than a terrestrial planet due to its closeness to the sun as well as its chemical composition. Secondly, A Jovian Planet has rings while a Terrestrial Planet has none. A Jovian Planet’s rings have a composition of rock and ice that orbit the sun. However, A Terrestrial Planet does not…

fields, all of the planets have one except for Venus and Mars. They do have some type of magnetic force, but they are not the same as they are for the other planets. Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field due to its size and the fact that it rotates very quickly. When it comes to atmosphere, many planets are different. Earth is made…

On both occasions, Galileo mistook Neptune for a fixed star when it appeared very close—in conjunction—to Jupiter in the night sky;[20] hence, he is not credited with Neptune's discovery. During the period of his first observation in December 1612, Neptune was stationary in the sky because it had just turned retrograde that very day. This apparent backward motion is created when the orbit of the Earth takes it past an outer planet. Since Neptune was only beginning its yearly retrograde cycle,…

Have you ever thought about life beyond earth? Scientist from NASA have been researching and building many prototypes of rovers to test possible places that maybe one day we might colonize on it! One of these places that NASA has been researching is the moon Titan, NASA picked this moon to research(although they are researching more planets similar to earth) because, it has many signs that it could sustain life one day! Some theories about NASA and the thought and evidence of life beyond earth…