jupiter. distance 800 million km (500 million miles) diameter: 143,000 x 133,000 km (88,000 x 80,000...
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Jupiter
Jupiter• Distance 800 million km (500 million miles)• Diameter: 143,000 x 133,000 km (88,000 x
80,000 miles) or 11 x 10 Earths• Rotates in 10 hours• Polar Flattening: 1/16 (Earth = 1/298)• Circles Sun in 12 years• Mass: 318 Earths• Volume: 1321 Earths• Density: 1.326 gm/cc• Four large satellites, 59 others
The Largest Planet
Pioneer 10 and 11 were
first to Jupiter, 1973
Pioneer 10-11, 1972-1974
Voyager I-II1977-1979
Galileo 1989-1995
Galileo’s Atmospheric Probe
Io, Europa and Jupiter
The Great Red Spot
Jupiter is Hot Inside
Jupiter Movie
Jupiter Has a Very Thin Ring
The Moons of Jupiter:
Callisto Ganymede
Europa Io
Callisto
This is what everyone expected Jupiter’s moons to
look like.
This was about the last thing that looked like we expected it to.
Valhalla Basin,
Callisto
Ganymede:
Largest Moon in the
Solar System
Close-up of Ganymede
Europa
Europa’s Icy Crust
Unexpected Io
An Eruption on Io
Loki’s Molten Sulfur Lake
Lava Flows on Io
Eruption on Io
Amalthea
The Impact of Comet Schumacher-Levy
For the first time ever, in 1994 we witnessed the impact of a comet
with a planet.
Comet Schumacher
-Levy
Impact!
A still-hot impact site rotates into
view (infrared
view)
Impact of Comet
Schumacher-Levy 9, 1993
Impact as Seen by Galileo