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JUPITER
By: Elizabeth, Jacob , Michael, Anthony
ATMOSPHERE
 Hydrogen and helium make up 92% of Jupiter
 When Jupiter formed 4.6 billion years ago, it did not have enough
mass to allow nuclear fusion to begin so it never became a star.
 The alternating light and dark burst of its surface makes Jupiter
unique in our solar system.
 Orange, grey, blue, and white bands spread out parallel to the
equator. The colors suggest the presence of organic molecules mixed
with ammonia, methane, and water vapor.
 Jupiter's rapid rotation causes the gases to swirl around the planet
and form the bands.
 The average temperature of Jupiter's outer atmosphere layers is 160
degrees. Jupiter has lightning storms and thunderstorms that are
much larger than those of earth.
WEATHER
 Jupiter has storms that grow up to cover up thousands of
km in hours.
 Last up to hundreds of years
 It has clouds made up of ammonia crystals that can be
seen as bands of yellow, brown and white.
 Clouds are located in the tropopouse and are arranged into
bands of different latitudes.
 The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is located 22 degrees south
of the equator and is larger in diameter than earth.
 Weather on Jupiter is damaging at all times, but sudden
storms can be an impossible hazard for space craft to
overcome.
STORMS
 Jupiter's most distinctive feature is its Great Red Spot. The
Great Red Spot is a giant rotating storm, similar to a
hurricane on Earth, that has been raging for at least several
hundred years.
 Sometimes the smaller storms are swallowed up by the larger
ones.
 Great Red Spot is a long-lived enormous storm system on
the planet Jupiter and the most conspicuous feature of its
visible cloud surface.
 It is generously reddish in color, slightly oval in shape, and
approximately 16,500 km wide – large enough to engulf
earth.
 Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm system.
INTERIOR
Jupiter's large mass causes the temperature and
pressure in Jupiter's interior to be much greater
than they are inside earth.
The intense pressure temperatures as high as
30,000 degrees Celsius have changed Jupiter's
interior into a sea of liquid, metallic hydrogen.
Electric currents in this hot liquid maybe the
source of Jupiter's enormous magnetic field.
Scientist think that Jupiter has a solid, rocky,
iron core at its center.
VIDEO
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?requiredfields=description&proxystylesheet=s
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http://www.sciencechannel.com/video-topics/space-videos/space-school-jupiter/