our solar system in the universe:
The Universe
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Favourite planets:
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jupiter's red spot:
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jupiter's moons:
Jupiter – king of the gods. Jupiter is the largest, and by far, the most massive planet in the solar system. You could fit 11 Earths across it, and more than 1000 Earths inside it! It has roughly the mass of 300 Earths. It rotates the fastest of all the planets and, because of that, has the most turbulent atmosphere of any planet. One of its storm systems, called The Great Red Spot, pictured above, is twice the size of Earth and has lasted more than 300 years. We don’t know how old it actually is because we have only been looking for 300 years!
Jupiter does not have a solid surface. Rather, as one sinks lower in the atmosphere, the pressure rises and the gas gets increasingly dense until it gradually turns liquid. There is no sharp boundary between the gas and liquid regions. At increasing depths, the liquid eventually turns solid from the enormous pressure of all of the mass above. It also has a collection of four large moons, called the Galilean satellites after their discoverer. Together, Jupiter and its moons are called the Jovian system. One of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, is larger than Mercury, while Callisto is about the same size as Mercury!
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Jupiter does not have a solid surface. Rather, as one sinks lower in the atmosphere, the pressure rises and the gas gets increasingly dense until it gradually turns liquid. There is no sharp boundary between the gas and liquid regions. At increasing depths, the liquid eventually turns solid from the enormous pressure of all of the mass above. It also has a collection of four large moons, called the Galilean satellites after their discoverer. Together, Jupiter and its moons are called the Jovian system. One of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, is larger than Mercury, while Callisto is about the same size as Mercury!
Click on this link:
https://s22380.pcdn.co/wp-content/plugins/observing-tools/jupiter_moons/jupiter.html
to see the position of Jupiter's 4 main moons in real time!
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