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The Solar System formed 4.6 billion
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years ago from the gravitational
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collapse of a giant molecular cloud.
The vast majority of the system's
mass is in the Sun, with most of the
remaining mass contained in Jupiter.
The four smaller inner planets,
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars,
also called the terrestrial planets, are
primarily composed of rock and
metal. The four outer planets, called
the gas giants, are substantially
more massive than the terrestrials.

JUPITER

INTRODUCTION

Jupiter is the fifth planet

The sun and is by far the largest planet with dozens of moons
and an enormous magnetic field that forms its own miniature
orbiting system.

The composition of Jupiter is somewhat that of a star but it did

not grow big enough to ignite under the heat pressures of its
own gravity.

The planet is in a constant state of storms and the Great Red

Spot has been raging for hundreds of years.

The Greeks named the largest planet Zeus. However the

Romans named it Jupiter.

He was the most important deity in both pantheons.

EXPLANATION

Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and the

largest planet in the solar system.

Jupiter has 67 natural satellites.

51 moons are less than 10 kilometers in

diameter and have only been discovered since
1975.

SPACE OBSERVATION ON JUPITER

Pioneer10flewbyJupiteronDecember1,1973.
Pioneer11flewbyJupiteronDecember1,1974.
Voyager1flewbyJupiteronMarch5,1979.
Voyager2flewbyJupiteronJuly9,1979.
Ulysses,studiesthepolesoftheSun.Jupiter
flybyFebruary8,1992.
GalileoOrbiter/AtmosphericProbe1995
2003.
HubbleSpaceTelescopeobservationssince
April25,1990.
CassinienroutetoSaturn,December2000,
andnowthere.

MOONS ON JUPITER

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Europa

Ganymede

Cellisto

DIFFERENCE
Earth

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet

from the sun

Jupiter is a gas planet

Earth is dubbed as the

third rock from the sun
Earth is a more solid
and rock-like

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Jupiter

is massive

Jupiter cant ever become a star

Jupiter

is the fastest spinning planet

in the Solar System

The

Clouds on Jupiter are only 50

km thick
The

Great Red Spot has been around

for a long time
Jupiter

has rings

Jupiters

magnetic field is 14 times

as strong as Earth
Jupiter

has 63 moons

Jupiter

has been visited 7 times by

spacecraft from Earth
You

eyes

can see Jupiter with your own

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