Jupiter

The Desertion is a story about humans attempting to colonize the planet Jupiter. The problem is that that there is too much pressure and the fact that alien lifeforms (lopers) are on the planet. Anyone human that goes to Jupiter is also turned into a loper and never return. The reason why this story is science fictional is because there is an involvement of DNA manipulation technology, domes for the…

Is Pluto a planet? This is the question many astronomers are debating. Pluto used to be considered a planet but back in 2006, it was taken of its title and was considered a dwarf planet. Many astronomers believe Pluto is a planet, and many believe it is not. This is a modern day debate for astronomers. Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. Pluto is a very, very, very cold planet and is believed to be covered with ice. The…

within our solar system by Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo in 2014 (Hunt 1) the hunt has been on for the elusive object. The use of extreme Kuiper Belt objects (eKBOs) which are objects believed to not be significantly influenced by Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, contributed to the idea of another object in the solar system influencing them (Malhotra 1). The study of the eKBOs orbit around our sun lead to the proposal of Planet X as the object that explains the orbits of the…

outstanding features can be seen: Saturn’s rings. Although the other gas giants in the solar system, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, also have rings, those of Saturn are without a doubt the most extraordinary. Saturn is a gas giant made up of mostly hydrogen and helium gas, with traces of ammonia and methane. Saturn is big enough to hold more than 760 Earths, and is more massive than any other planet except Jupiter; roughly Saturn is 95 times Earth’s mass. However, Saturn has the lowest density of…

Saturn Saturn is the second most biggest planet in our Solar System. The planet was mostly named by the Roman and Greek gods. Apparently the name Jupiter as well as Saturn was named after a Greek and Roman gods. Saturn was the “father” of Jupiter in the gods. The arrangement of the planets from the Sun, in fact, go Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the dwarf planets including Pluto. Saturn is the the 6th planet away from the sun. Because it is the second biggest…

planets are the planets that are really dense. These planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The Earth is the third closest planet to the Sun. The order for all the planets in range from the Sun to the Kuiper Belt is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. What the Earth is Made Of Earth is made up of 71% water and 29% land. Above the core is Earth's mantle, which is made up of rock containing silicon, iron, magnesium, aluminum, oxygen and other…

One of the most captivating questions in astronomy today is the how our solar system formed? Not only does the answer adds an insight to other similarly forming systems, but also satisfies our curiosity about the origin of our species. It is extremely unlikely that astronomers will ever know with absolute scientific clarity how our system originated, they can however construct similar theoretical models with faiths of gaining a better understanding. With that being said a simple understanding of…

most noticeable differences between these jovian planets compared to the terrestrial planets is their size. To begin, the word “jovian” itself is brought from the name of the planet Jupiter. The word originates from Roman Mythology, and is used to describe other gas planets in the solar system that are similar to Jupiter, or in other words, are composed of gas (Williams, 2016). Even Neptune, the smallest jovian planet, has nearly four times the diameter of Earth, the largest terrestrial planet…

In our solar system, gas giants are much bigger than terrestrial planets, and they have thick atmospheres full of hydrogen and helium. They both orbit the sun. Terrestrial planets are similar to Earth made up of mostly rock and have few moons. Gas giants are made up of gas and have a lot more moons. Some of the surface of mercury featured is craters, ridges, and terrains ranging from heavily cratered to nearly crater free. These features help us to understand the evolution of the planet.…

Asteroids can also have a huge impact on Earth; some are capable of even causing a global disaster. Asteroids are said to be leftover particles from when the solar system was formed. Early on, the beginning of Jupiter prevented any planetary bodies from forming in the gap between Mars and Jupiter, causing the small objects that were there to collide with each other and fragment into the asteroids seen today (Space.com). In the 1800's, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered what he thought to be a new…