Jupiter slide show video

Jupiter slide show video

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  Jupiter The Giant Planet
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  How Big IsJupiter? ● Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System, being 85,788 miles in diameter. ● If the Sun were as big as a typical front door, Earth would be the size of a nickel, and Jupiter would be the size of a basketball. ● 1,300 Earths would fit inside Jupiter if it were hollow.
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  How Did JupiterGet Its Name? ● Jupiter is named after the Roman king of gods, commanding rain, thunder, and lightning. ● No one knows who discovered Jupiter. ● It was known by the ancients.
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  What Does JupiterLook Like? ● Jupiter is white, orange, brown, yellow, and red. ● It has a red spot, which is actually a giant storm that has been growing since 1998, where winds can be up to 384 miles per hour. ● Jupiter actually has very faint rings, which are made from gas, dust, rocks, and ice.
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  Where Is Jupiter? ● Jupiter is 466 million miles from the Sun. ● It is also one of the outer planets, being the 5th planet from the center of our Solar System.
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  What Is TimeOn Jupiter Like? ● The length of a year on Jupiter is equivalent to 12 Earth years. ● A day is only 9 hours and 55 minutes. ● A few of the planets have seasons like Earth, but Jupiter doesn’t, because it spins too fast.
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  What Spacecraft HaveFlown By Jupiter? ● Pioneer 10 first flew by Jupiter in 1973. ● Later fly-by visits were Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Ulysses, and Galileo.
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  What Are Jupiter'sMoons? ● Jupiter has 64 moons. ● Its biggest 4 moons are Europa, Callisto, Io, and Ganymede. Europa may have water underneath the ice on its surface, and Io has over 400 active volcanoes. ● Some of Jupiter's other moons are Amalthea, Elara, Himalia, Pasiphae, and Carme.
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  What Is JupiterMade Out Of? ● The white, orange, brown, yellow, and red colors on Jupiter are actually thick clouds of poisonous gases. ● Jupiter is not solid. It is made up of hydrogen and helium, with traces of methane, water, ammonia, and rock.
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  The End
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  Sources Slide One: anmascarin.blogspot.com SlideTwo: teachers.district106.net Slide Three: shapleyblog.edublogs.org Slide Four: NASA - Jupiter's Great Red Spot Region Slide Five: www.planetsforkidsnow.net Slide Six: NASA - Jupiter From the Ground Slide Seven: en.wikipedia.org Slide Eight: NASA - Montage Slide Nine: blogs.discovermagazine.com Information found at www.nasa.org and