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Jupiter was discovered blue because it was facing the sun in a certain way which made it look blue. Jupiter. Mikayla Sivulka and Michael Duran. The History. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Jupiter
Mikayla Sivulka and Michael Duran
Jupiter was discovered blue because it was facing the sun in a certain way which made it look blue.
The History
Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter in Italy in 1610 and it was found looking through a telescope. Its name means mythology Zeus. This is Jupiter’s symbol.
SOLAR SYSTEMo Jupiter is the fifth planet
from the sun. o It is 484 million miles
from the sun.o It takes 433,259 days to
orbit around the sun. o It takes 9 hours and 55
minutes to rotate around the solar system.
Moons
Jupiter has 4 moons:Europa GanymedeCalisto Io
Planet appearanceJupiter looks like a red, orange,
yellow, and brown planet. It also has tan stripes, one black spot
and a red spot that was there for 300 years.
It looks like a huge basket ball.The red spot is bigger than Earth.
Jupiter has one ring that is impossible to see from Earth. We could only see the ring by sending a robot to Jupiter.
Rings
Exploration
No one ever has been on Jupiter before.
But we sent a robot to Jupiter to take a picture and was sent on September 1, 1979 it returned November 13, 1980.
People can’t go on Jupiter because Jupiter is a gassy planet , and people call it the Gas Giant. There is no solution .
Jupiter spins fast for a little bit and than very slow. It has 64 moons and Jupiter has more gravity than Earth. Jupiter is the fourth biggest thing in the sky.
It has a rocky core inside of it. The weather on Jupiter has a lot of dust storms because there is a red and black spot that makes the dust storms over 300 years. If I am 60 pounds on Earth , than I weigh 141.8 pounds on Jupiter.