Moons of Jupiter

The planet Jupiter is one of the five objects to be visible from Earth in the solar system. Of these bodies it is the second largest behind the sun. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System with a mass of 1.899x1027kg orbiting at 5.2AU from the Sun. Jupiter is orbited by 67 moons of which the first four are called the Galilean moons as of their discovery in 1614 by Galileo. Jupiter formed about 4.6billion years ago from the cloud of dust and gas that made up the early Solar System.…

also the sixth planet and it is not really far from the sun, Saturn also has sixty-two moons. Some planets have more than one or two moons some have none at all. They also call this planet a “Gas giant”. The other gas giants are Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter are also gas giants. One of the moons named the “Cassini” accidentally went into Saturn’s orbit. Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus are gas giants Jupiter is a kind of blue planet that rains diamonds. Neptune is a very light blue planet…

in the winter. Any liquid water would evaporate quickly due to the thin atmosphere although there are the polar ice caps made of water. Notably, Mars is home to the Olympus Mons, an extinct volcano, three times the height of Mount Everest. Two moons orbit Mars called Phobos and Deimos. We thought of Mars as the most habitable planet for humans until the discovery of…

distant arcs. They are named Fraternite, Egalite 1 and 2, Liberte, and Courage. It is believed that the stability of the 5 rings come from the interaction Adams has with its inner moon Galatea. As I have stated before, Neptune was originally discovered by Galileo. He actually thought the planet was a star next to Jupiter because of the cloudy skies which he looked upon that day. He found the planet by using the Refracting Telescope, which he invented. Then he drew a sketch of what he…

Solar System Explanation The parts of the solar system are the Sun, Planets, the Kuiper Belt(meteors), the Main Belt(asteroids), comets, dwarf planets, and moons. The sun is located in the center of the universe and all of the other objects orbit around it. The sun only rotates about every 25-36 Earth days. The sun is the closest star and a heat source for almost all the planets. All of the planets orbit around the sun but all at different paces. For example, It takes Earth 365 days to orbit…

Julia Piccolino Mr. Corso 15 January 2018 Jupiter Research Paper Our solar system is made up of 8 planets that vary from each other greatly. Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the closest gas giant in orbit. It is made entirely of gases, and has no surface. Jupiter has the most moons out of any of the planets, and is also the largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is one of the most interesting planets due to it’s intriguing properties such as its unique size, Red Spot, composition,…

wrote is that, “He is perhaps most known for his discovery of the four most massive moons of Jupiter: Io, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto(Nola Taylor Redd).” What the Writer is saying is that the four biggest moons of Jupiter were discovered by Galileo. Now the moons are called Galilean moons after the person who discovered them. Also from the same writer Nola Taylor Redd, “He was the first to see craters on the moon, discover sunspots and track the phases of venus. The rings of saturn puzzled…

one could ever really know for sure. However, Saturn is not the only planet with a ring system, there are a few others but nothing as extravagant as what Saturn has. There are many aspects that make Saturn the unique planet it is such as its rings, moons, composition, and many other things. It has been looked at by astronomers and scientists since 700 BC and is still trying to be figured out today. In this paper, we…

Jupiter is the largest planet, it’s volume is so large that it’s able to fit more than 1,000 earths.Because of Jupiter's large mass, it has 67 moons. All of its moons are denser than Jupiter because they are rocky like the terrestrial planets. Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, both in mass and density. Like most of the gas giants, Saturn is made of hydrogen and helium. Saturn has 62 moons, it has one of the largest moons in the solar system, Titan…

including the Tharsis Bulge, Hellas Basin, Borealis Basin, Valles Marineris. For long, it was thought there was water on Mars because we could see what looked like canals. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are irregular (not spherical) Jupiter 5th planet from the Sun Named after the Roman God of Thunder Jupiter is the biggest planet of the Solar Sytem, and makes up 90% of the mass of it (Sun excluded) It is a Gas Giant It is the fourth brightest item in the sky (after Venus) Its…