Terrestrial planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Jovian planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.…
* Today we know Solar system has: 1 star, 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, 139+ moons, countless small solar system bodies…
If all the mass of the satellites, asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and planets (besides Jupiter) in the solar system were combined and doubled two and half times, you will get the mass of Jupiter.…
He saw the four largest moons of Jupiter in orbit around the planet, proving that the Ptolemaic system was not simple, that the solar system was not geocentric, meaning that the planets and the sun did not orbit around the Earth. He stated that there were sunspots on the surface of the sun, that the sunspots changed their shapes, and that both originated and dissolved on that sphere, concluding that the sun was not a perfect sphere, which was in direct contradiction to the views of the Church. Galileo saw that Venus display phases similar to our moon. According to the Ptolemaic system, Venus could only display a crescent phase because its epicycle always placed it between Earth and the sun, and the Copernican system put everything rotating around the sun, which explained the phases of Venus. At the time, most…
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the most massive planet in our solar system. It has an equatorial diameter of 143,000 kilometers. It is 11.2 times the size of earth and has a mass 318 times the size of Earths. You could also fit almost 1400 Venus's inside Jupiter. Jupiter has an enormous magnetic field, has 63 moons, and it also has rings which form a miniature solar system of its own. Jupiter is made primarily of the gasses hydrogen and helium which makes Jupiter's atmosphere similar to the suns, "it is a big ball of gas". Jupiter rotates west to east and its rotation is so fast that it bulges out at its equator and it takes 11.85 years to orbit once around the sun. One day on Jupiter compared to that of Earths lasts just 9.9 hours. where as a day on Venus lasts 243 days. Jupiter is usually the second brightest planet we can see and it can often be seen all night.…
10. a. Complete the following table comparing each of the eight planets, and Pluto, with respect to the criteria shown. Use NASA’s planetary factsheet at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/ .…
The Solar system consists of nine major planets, the Sun, at least sixty planetary satellites (moons), uncountable amount of asteroids and comets that all span an immense distance (“solar system” n.pag.)…
The video I chose was “Juno to Reveal Jupiter’s Violent Past” and this video talks about the violent history’s and why we should car about the planet Jupiter. After having a 5-year journey from Earth to Jupiter, people are wondering why should we care. Well this video states that the planet Jupiter is the second most important planet in our universe. Also, states that it holds the secrets to the formation of the solar system. For the size of Jupiter, they consider this as a monster. It mass is very large that, with all our planets combined except the sun it weights more. To be exact it two and a half time more than all the planets combined according to this video. Jupiter has an enormous gravity that it info’s the orbit of all the planets…
2) Charon, one of its largest moons, is only half the size of Pluto, while other true planets are far larger than their moons…
A famously known asteroid named 52 Europa is the 6th largest known asteroid in the asteroid belt (the asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System which is located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. Lots of asteroids or minor planets i.e. Pluto occupy the asteroid belt) with a large diameter of 315 km. It was discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt in February 4th 1858 by using a telescope; he was in Paris at the time. Europa is named after one of Jupiter’s moon which is also called Europa. 52 Europa continues to orbit.…
To be considered a planet of our solar system you need many different aspects which may seem effortless to understand although there is endless information which is new to scientists everyday.…
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is twice as large as all the other planets combined. It has 28 known satellites. The earliest discovered moons date back to 1610 and were discovered by Galileo. This is of interest because a future mission to Jupiter is named after this astronomer. Most of the remaining moons were discovered in the 20th century with advancement of technology. Some are discovered using better telescopes and others with missions directed towards Jupiter. Some of the more recently discovered moons are yet to be named. All that we know of Jupiter couldn 't possibly have come form just observation. Some have come by spacecraft passing by Jupiter on their way to other missions and some of the most comprehensive…
Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and can get up to 863.6 degrees fahrenheit. Meanwhile Neptune gets to -329.8 degrees fahrenheit (Chris). This is because Venus is 2,727,767,000 miles closer. Venus was also discovered about a thousand years before Neptune. Since Venus is so close to the sun, its orbit period is 225 days. Neptune takes 156 years! The two are also made up of very different substances. One is made out of iron core, rocky mantle, and silicate crust and the other is made up of hydrogen, helium, and methane. The reason why Terrestrial planets are made out of rocks and why Jovian planets are made out of gasses is because of the way they were formed. Since the Terrestrial planets are closer to the sun, the gasses that they may have had when they were first formed may have been blown away from solarwinds. Since Jovian planets formed and moved farther away from the sun, they were able to hold the gasses in (Wolf). Although they are in very different place in the solar system, Terrestrial and Jovian planets can have some similarities. They are both spheres. Venus and Neptune have a special thing in common. They both contain violent storms. Due to the extreme pressures on Venus, it has a lot of storms that can get very violent with a lot of lightning. Neptune’s storms have been recorded to travel 600 miles per…
Jupiter’s climate is very different to the climate on Earth, as well as the temperature that are much colder. Jupiter is a gaseous planet and so it does not have a solid surface, because of it being made out of gas it technically has no surface. Temperatures range from high to low on Jupiter because of all the types of gases and layers that they are in, such as the upper atmosphere where it is colder and increases closer to the center. At the top of Jupiter’s clouds the temperature is around -230 degrees Fahrenheit or -145 degrees Celsius. Jupiter’s temperature increases as you descend closer to the center of the planet. The temperature can increase so much to the point where atmospheric pressure is ten times greater than that on Earth and the temperature is 21 degrees Celsius which scientists call “room temperature.” This part of Jupiter is believed to possibly be able to support life, which would have to float and not need oxygen. To be exact Jupiter’s atmosphere contains 99% hydrogen and helium, the other 1% consists of methane, ammonia, water vapor, and trace elements. Under this layer of clouds which would also be the atmosphere, lie a sea of liquid hydrogen and helium that is 13,000 miles deep, and finally the core of Jupiter where the temperature is so high it is said to be hotter than the suns surface. From this came a small belief that Jupiter was a failed star because of the similarities to our sun. Some interesting facts about Jupiter weather are that it has very powerful storm systems, powerful lightning, and deadly radiation. Not unless we find a way to fight such extreme cold temperatures or live in a sort of cabin that floats and can provide oxygen, so I cannot really say we would be able to go because only in such a place can temperature be regulated and have oxygen provided for us to survive. Although we would not be able to go because of the complex weather system, some of Jupiter’s moon’s materials might be helpful…
The atmosphere of Uranus has gases that make the planet impossible for life to live on. Since the atmosphere is composed of hydrogen, helium, and methane there is a minimal amount of oxygen on Uranus. Therefore, any organism could not survive, as every living thing needs oxygen. Since the planet is completely made of gas, the planet is considered a gas giant. Due…