Jupiter

By Brodey, Hannah and Tom

Information about Jupiter

Jupiter, known as Zeus in Greek mythology, over threw his father Saturn to become king of the gods. He then split the universe with his brothers Neptune and Pluto.

Did you know Jupiter has rings? They are faint and are only able to be viewed when Jupiter passes in front of the Sun. This is because the light from the Sun lights them up for us to see here on Earth. There are three rings in all. They are named Gossamer, Main and Halo.

What colour is Jupiter

The iconic images of Jupiter show that it reflects many shades of white, red, orange, brown, and yellow. The color of Jupiter changes with storms and wind in the planets atmosphere. Jupiters Great Red Spot is an extreme example of one of these storms. It has been raging for at least 400 years. It is thought to have first observed by Giovanni Cassini in the late 1600s.

How Jupiter got its name

Jupiter has been known since very ancient times, so how did Jupiter get its name?

While it had many names throughout history, the Roman empire had the greatest influence over a wide portion of modern society, so the names accorded to planets by the Romans still hold sway over astronomy.
The Romans named the planet after their king of gods, Jupiter, who was also the god of the sky and of thunder. Why choose to name the planet Jupiter? It was the largest object in the sky; therefore the most powerful; therefore Jupiter.

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What is the giant red spot

The Great Red Spot is a giant, spinning storm in Jupiter's atmosphere.
It is like a hurricane on Earth, but it is much larger. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is more than twice the size of Earth! Winds inside this storm reach speeds of about 270 miles per hour. Nobody knows when the Great Red Spot first appeared on Jupiter, but it has been seen on Jupiter ever since people started looking through telescopes about 400 years ago .

Jupiter would have to add about 80 times its current mass in order to become massive enough to ignite fusion.
With that amount of mass, Jupiter would shrink in on itself(gravitational compression) and become hot enough to fuse hydrogen into helium. That is not going to happen any time soon since, outside of the Sun, there isnt that much mass in our Solar System

The temperature of Jupiter varies. The temperature of the core is different than the upper atmosphere, and so on.

Scientists do not have exact numbers for the various temperatures on the planet, but at the upper edge of the cloud cover, the temperature is thought to be -145 degrees C.
On Jupiter the temperature increases because of atmospheric pressure, so as you descend temperature increases.

Not far into the atmosphere the pressure is about ten times what it is here on Earth and the temperature is thought to be about 20 degrees see or average room temperature for Earth .
Descend further and hydrogen becomes hot enough to turn into a liquid and the temperature is thought to be over 9,700 C. At the planets core scientists think that the temperatures could be as high as 35,500 C.

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