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**Notes** JUPITER Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun, and the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter is classified as one of the four gas giants. The other gas giants are saturn, uranus, and neptune. these four planets are also sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets. jupiter has at least 63 known moonsthat orbit jupiter, like it has its own mini solar system. Most of its moons are very small though. on december 7, 1995, a probe the size of an average food grill dropped from the spacecraft Glileo and entered jupiter's atmosphere at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour it slowed to 100,000 mph within 2 minutes. a parachute was dropped from the probe and extremely intense wind blew it 300 miles horizontally. then the probe spent 58 minutes taking very What the probe discovered first was a belt of radiation 31,000 miles (49,900 kilometers) above Jupiter's clouds, containing the strongest radio waves in the solar system. It next encountered Jupiter's swirling clouds and found that they contain water, helium, hydrogen, carbon, sulfur, and neon, but in much smaller quantities than expected. It also found gaseous krypton and xenon, but in greater amounts than previously estimated. Scientists had predicted the probe would encounter three or four dense cloud layers of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and water, but instead it found only thin, hazy clouds. The probe detected only faint signs of lightning at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) away, far less than expected. It also discovered that lightning on Jupiter occurs only one-tenth as often as it does on Earth. Perhaps the biggest surprise uncovered by the probe was the lack of water on the planet. The probe did not survive long enough to gather information on Jupiter's core. Astronomers believe the planet has a rocky core made of material similar to that of Earth's core. The temperature of the core may be as hot as 18,000°F (9,820°C), with pressures two million times those at Earth's surface. Scientists believe a layer of compressed hydrogen surrounds the core. Hydrogen in this layer may act like a metal and may be the cause of Jupiter'sintense magnetic field (five times greater than the Sun's). Detailed photos of the gas giant planet until its camera stopped working due to altitude. temperatures reached 3,400 degrees farenheit. one supris ewas the fact that there was a lack of water on the planet. but conclusions cant be drawn from just a single test. but if jupiter is not watery like the scientists assumed, then there is a little chance of finding life there. as of 2007 scientists hypothesize that there is an unlikely chance of finding life there. there are only small traces of water and extremely high pressure on its surface. Jupiter can be seen through a telescope and with the bare eye and it looks like a globe of colorful swirling bands. the bands are a result of jupiters fast rotation, with one of its days being 10 hours compared to earth's 24 hours. jupiter is 1,300 times larger than earth, and three hundred times earth's mass. Jupiters diameter is 85,000 miles while earth's is only just over 7,900miles. jupiter is one of the brightest objects int eh sky besides the sun and it reflects light that is twice as intense as the sunlight that strikes it. One reason why jupiter is so iumportant is because scientists contend that it may hold information about the birth of our solar system. A recent theory from scientists states that jupiter was formed from ice and rock from comets and it grew from attracting objects around it. JUPITER'S RINGS Jupiter's rings are very faint. They are made of small particles. After pictures from the spacecraft galileo scientists found out that the rings are formed when cosmic debris(such as asteroid or comet particles) are pulled and smashed into Jupiter's moons by the planet's powerful magnetic field. The resulting collision produces dust clouds that become the rings around the planet.