Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. The gas giant is NOT a failed star, but a really successful planet! It has a dynamic atmosphere with belts and zones, as well as an enormous red spot that’s actually a persistent hurricane. Jupiter is still warm from its formation, and has an interior that’s mostly metallic hydrogen, and it may not even have a core.
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Table of Contents
Jupiter is the Biggest
Planet in
Our Solar System 0:28
Belts and
Zones 1:33
Persistent Hurricane 2:32
Metallic Hydrogen Interior 4:03
Fast Spin 0:49
Not a
Failure 6:17
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PHOTO/
VIDEO SOURCES
Jupiter http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/screen/heic1410a
.jpg [credit:
NASA,
ESA, and A.
Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)]
Earth http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view
.php?id=57723 [credit: NASA]
Telescope view https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6155/6177104089_ae8cc91af4_o_d.jpg [credit:
Chris Isherwood / Flickr]
Jupiter
Belt System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter#/media/
File:Jupiter_Belt_System
.svg [credit:
Wikimedia Commons &
NASA/JPL]
Jupiter’s
Jet Streams http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details
.cgi?aid=10981 [credit: NASA'
s Goddard Space Flight Center]
2010 belt sinking http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/wallpaper3/heic1010b.jpg [credit: NASA, ESA and Z. Levay (STScI)]
Storms http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA01384.jpg [credit: NASA/JPL]
Jupiter
Approach http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/388625main_Jupiter_Approach
.gif [credit: NASA]
Red spot shrinking http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2014-24-a-print.jpg [credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)]
Jupiter’s
Hot Spots http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11237 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]
Gas interior http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/gas_interiors.jpg [credit: NASA]
Jupiter interior http://juno.wisc.edu/
Images/using/
Science/Objectives/Jupiter_Interior.jpg [credit: NASA]
Creating
Gas Giants http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11541 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]
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Jupiter heat http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA13760.jpg [credit: NASA/
IRTF/JPL-Caltech/
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Jupiter and its shrunken red spot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter#/media/File:Jupiter_and_its_shrunken_Great_Red_Spot.jpg [credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)]
Jupiter’s magnetosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)#/media/File:Jupiter_magnetosphere_schematic.jpg [credit: WikiMedia Commons / Volcanopele]
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John Clarke (
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Jupiter’s ring http://pds-rings.seti.org/jupiter/galileo/PIA01621.jpg [credit: NASA]
Cosmic
Fireball Falling Over
ALMA http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1414a/ [credit:
ESO/C.
Malin]
Shoemaker http://zebu.uoregon.edu/images/G-MSSSO.gif [credit:
ANU /
Peter McGregor]
Shoemaker scars http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/10th/photos/graphics/slide21high.jpg [credit: R.
Evans, J. Trauger, H.
Hammel and the
HST Comet Science
Team and NASA]
Smaller impacts http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2009-23-a-print.jpg [credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Hammel (
Space Science Institute,
Boulder, Colo.), and the Jupiter
Impact Team]
- published: 08 May 2015
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