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Jupiter

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

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Jupiter

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  1. Jupiter

  2. 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

  3. The Largest Planet

  4. Pioneer 10 and 11 were first to Jupiter, 1973

  5. Pioneer 10-11, 1972-1974

  6. Voyager I-II1977-1979

  7. Galileo 1989-1995

  8. Galileo’s Atmospheric Probe

  9. Io, Europa and Jupiter

  10. The Great Red Spot

  11. Jupiter is Hot Inside

  12. Jupiter Movie

  13. Jupiter Has a Very Thin Ring

  14. The Moons of Jupiter:Callisto GanymedeEuropa Io

  15. CallistoThis is what everyone expected Jupiter’s moons to look like.This was about the last thing that looked like we expected it to.

  16. Valhalla Basin, Callisto

  17. Ganymede:Largest Moon in the Solar System

  18. Close-up of Ganymede

  19. Europa

  20. Europa’s Icy Crust

  21. Unexpected Io

  22. An Eruption on Io

  23. Loki’s Molten Sulfur Lake

  24. Lava Flows on Io

  25. Eruption on Io

  26. Amalthea

  27. The Impact of Comet Schumacher-Levy For the first time ever, in 1994 we witnessed the impact of a comet with a planet.

  28. Comet Schumacher-Levy

  29. Impact!A still-hot impact site rotates into view (infrared view)

  30. Impact Fireball

  31. Impact of Comet Schumacher-Levy 9, 1993

  32. Impact as Seen by Galileo

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