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Planet Jupiter
The 5th planet from the Sun and the biggest planet in our solar system.
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Who were Jupiter's 4 largest moons named after?
They are called the Galilean satellites because they were the only moons of Jupiter's that were big enough for Galileo to see.
Ganymede: In Greek mythology, Ganymede, or Ganymedes, is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy.
Callisto: Callisto was a nymph (or, according to some sources, the daughter of Lycaon) who was associated with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis.
Europa: Europa was a Phoenician woman of high lineage in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken
Io: In Greek mythology, Io was a priestess of Hera in Argos, a nymph who was seduced by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection.
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What are the names of every single moon orbiting Jupiter?
There's like 60-odd. I can't even be bothered to copy-and-paste a list. Just type anything along these lines into Google or Wikipedia or something:
- Jovian moons
- Jupiter's moons
- moons of Jupiter
- etc
If you like you can add "list" to the end of the suggestions. One note though, they're all named after chicks that Jupiter (the god) or Zeus (the same god but with a different beard) banged.
What are gassy planets made of?
Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, with traces of other elements like water, ammonia, and methane. These planets do not have a solid surface and instead have thick atmospheres that gradually transition to liquid and then into a rocky core at the center.
Why did Galileo Galilei discover that Jupiter has four moons?
Before Galileo observed that Jupiter had moons of its own, the prevailing theory in astronomy was that everything in the universe revolved around the Earth, a philosophy known as geocentrism.
In 1610, Galileo trained his newly-invented telescope upon Jupiter, and observed what he at first called 'fixed stars' orbiting around it. This direct evidence that not everything revolved around us after all was the first large crack in the geocentric theory, and major evidence of Copernicus's competing theory of heliocentrism: that planets and their moons revolve around the sun instead.
What takes 365.25 days to complete?
One Earth orbit around the Sun takes 365.25 days to complete, resulting in the length of a year in the Gregorian calendar. This extra quarter day is why we have a leap year every four years to keep our calendars aligned with the astronomical year.
The four giant planets are comprised mostly of an outer layer of molecular hydrogen and helium and a much thicker layer of metallic hydrogen. However, each may have a small solid core as large as three to 20 Earth masses at their center.In the several decades old, "bottoms-up" or "core-accretion" model, the primordial disk of gas and dust that coalesced into the planetesimals and formed the planets and other planetary bodies was colder in the outer Solar System, being much farther away from the developing Sun. As a result, water and other substances that existed as volatile gases and liquids in the inner nebula were frozen into ices and supplemented the mass of disk materials being accreted into large protoplanets. Because of the greater mass concentration from ices available beyond five times the Earth-Sun distance (AU) from Sol, these protoplanets are thought to have grown much more quickly to greater size than those in warmer, inner orbits. Once these ice-rock planetary bodies grew to a critical threshold size somewhere between five to 10 times the mass of the Earth, their gravity became so great that they began to pull in large amounts of gas directly from the surrounding Solar nebula to form giant protoplanets. Finally, as happened with the inner planets, the largest protoplanet in each local swarm drew in smaller ones to form the planets now observed through collisions, or threw them out of their original orbits into the Oort Cloud, interstellar space, or into collisions with other Solar System objects such as the Sun.According to astronomer Alan P. Boss (Astronomy, October 2006), there's little agreement among astronomers on how the largest gas giants in the Solar System (Jupiter and Saturn) and even larger, recently discovered extra-solar giant planets may have formed. According to the "top-down" or "disk-instability" model, concentrations of a protoplanetary disk's hydrogen and helium gas (which makes up most of its mass) can grow by pulling more gas onto themselves through gravitational attraction. Hence, in a few orbital periods, spiral arms can form and collide within the disk like those in spiral galaxies in a runaway process leading to clumps of gas within a thousand years. If dense amd cool enough, these gas clumps quickly contract and collapse into gas-giant protoplanets which attract dust particles that fall into planetary cores. Between the polar extremes of the tops-down and bottoms-up models, however, astronomers have also developed hybrid mechanisms that incorporate elements of both models.
Scientists have never been able to look inside the four gaseous planets, but there are a lot of indirect evidence that there a surface but not a surface that you would think of. When you would land the surface would be extremely hot. You would need extremely advanced technology to actually land on its surface. The extremely fast winds rushing through the planet would also be a factor. Also the gas that is on each of these planets are extremely poisonous to us. The heat generated from the planet would also burn up the ship not to mention the pressure from the gas planet.
What planet has a giant storm that has lasted over 300 years?
Jupiter has a giant storm known as the Great Red Spot, which has lasted for over 300 years. The storm is a high-pressure region with winds swirling in an anti-clockwise direction at speeds of about 430 km/h (270 mph).
How long does it take for jupiter to orbit arond the sun?
Jupiter takes approximately 11.9 Earth years to orbit around the sun.
Has anybody visted planet Jupiter?
No human has ever visited Jupiter. NASA's Juno spacecraft is currently exploring Jupiter and sending back valuable data, but sending a crewed mission to Jupiter is currently beyond our technological capabilities.
In Okami Where are the four ingredients in Moon Cave?
Each of the ingredients are marked on your map as a red circle
What does Jupiter have in common with the sun that the terrestrial planets don't?
Jupiter consists of hydrogen and helium (primarily) like the Sun. It has a host of satellites in orbit around its equatorial plane. The sun has natural satellites (planets) that orbit its equatorial plane.
Where is Jupiter located in the inner or outer of the solar system?
Jupiter is the first of the outer planets. The asteroid belt separates the inner and outer planets.
How far away from the sun are the dwarf planets?
Dwarf planets are located in the outer solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune in a region called the Kuiper Belt. This region extends from about 30 astronomical units (AU) to 50 AU from the sun. Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Ceres are examples of dwarf planets located in this region.
How many earth days is one year on the moon?
If a "day" is the time from one sunrise to the next, then on the moon, that's roughly 29 earth days.
Is ganymede a volcano on Jupiter?
Ganymede is not a volcano on Jupiter. Ganymede is actually one of Jupiter's moons, and it is the largest moon in our solar system. It has a complex geology with various surface features, including impact craters, grooves, and ridges.
What makes europa unique to other moons?
Europa is unique because it has a global subsurface ocean potentially containing more water than all of Earth's oceans combined. This ocean is kept in a liquid state due to tidal heating generated by its gravitational interactions with Jupiter and its neighboring moons. Additionally, Europa's icy surface is marked by a network of cracks and ridges, hinting at geologic activity that may involve the exchange of materials between the surface and the subsurface ocean.
Jupiter is a gas giant made primarily of hydrogen and helium, and it is not toxic in the way we typically think of toxic substances. However, the intense radiation and strong magnetic fields on Jupiter's surface would be lethal to humans without proper protection.
What planet has no surface and is made out of gas and has 63 moons?
The planet Uranus has no solid surface and is composed mainly of gas. It has 27 known moons, not 63. However, the planet Jupiter is made of gas and has 79 known moons.
What are the rocky particles which orbit the sun mainly between Mars and Jupiter?
They are asteroids within the Asteroid Belt.
What is the name of the cyclone on Jupiter?
The most famous Jovian cyclone is the Great Red Spot in the southern hemisphere, which has been known to exist for at least 180 years, and may have been around for at least twice that.
There are other persistent cyclones, of which the most notable is called Oval BA, sometimes nicknamed the Little Red Spot.
Because Jupiter has no energy-dissipating land masses under its surface, there is nothing to drain or divert its cyclones. It is believed that they maintain their energy from the heat transmitted up from Jupiter's core, and possibly from the powerful magnetic field produced by the rapidly-spinning planet.
What Jupiter 3 unique characteristics of Jupiter planet?
3 unique characteristics of Jupiter:
Jupiter is widely known for the large swirling hurricane on its surface. It is known as the Great Red Spot.
Jupiter is the largest of all the planets in our solar system.
Jupiter has the most moons in our solar system; leading with 63 moons total.
What causes Jupiters moons to heat up?
Jupiter's moons heat up due to a combination of factors, including tidal heating from the gravitational forces exerted by Jupiter and other nearby moons, as well as radioactive decay within the moon's interior. The varying distances from Jupiter can also affect the extent of heating on the moons.
