Terrestrial planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Jovian planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.…
* Today we know Solar system has: 1 star, 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, 139+ moons, countless small solar system bodies…
He saw the four largest moons of Jupiter in orbit around the planet, proving that the Ptolemaic system was not simple, that the solar system was not geocentric, meaning that the planets and the sun did not orbit around the Earth. He stated that there were sunspots on the surface of the sun, that the sunspots changed their shapes, and that both originated and dissolved on that sphere, concluding that the sun was not a perfect sphere, which was in direct contradiction to the views of the Church. Galileo saw that Venus display phases similar to our moon. According to the Ptolemaic system, Venus could only display a crescent phase because its epicycle always placed it between Earth and the sun, and the Copernican system put everything rotating around the sun, which explained the phases of Venus. At the time, most…
The Solar System Explorer Gizmo™ shows a model of the solar system. All of the distances, but not the sizes of the planets, are shown to scale. To begin, turn on Show orbital paths and click Play (). You are looking at the four inner planets.…
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the most massive planet in our solar system. It has an equatorial diameter of 143,000 kilometers. It is 11.2 times the size of earth and has a mass 318 times the size of Earths. You could also fit almost 1400 Venus's inside Jupiter. Jupiter has an enormous magnetic field, has 63 moons, and it also has rings which form a miniature solar system of its own. Jupiter is made primarily of the gasses hydrogen and helium which makes Jupiter's atmosphere similar to the suns, "it is a big ball of gas". Jupiter rotates west to east and its rotation is so fast that it bulges out at its equator and it takes 11.85 years to orbit once around the sun. One day on Jupiter compared to that of Earths lasts just 9.9 hours. where as a day on Venus lasts 243 days. Jupiter is usually the second brightest planet we can see and it can often be seen all night.…
The Solar system consists of nine major planets, the Sun, at least sixty planetary satellites (moons), uncountable amount of asteroids and comets that all span an immense distance (“solar system” n.pag.)…
2) Charon, one of its largest moons, is only half the size of Pluto, while other true planets are far larger than their moons…
10. a. Complete the following table comparing each of the eight planets, and Pluto, with respect to the criteria shown. Use NASA’s planetary factsheet at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/ .…
To be considered a planet of our solar system you need many different aspects which may seem effortless to understand although there is endless information which is new to scientists everyday.…
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is twice as large as all the other planets combined. It has 28 known satellites. The earliest discovered moons date back to 1610 and were discovered by Galileo. This is of interest because a future mission to Jupiter is named after this astronomer. Most of the remaining moons were discovered in the 20th century with advancement of technology. Some are discovered using better telescopes and others with missions directed towards Jupiter. Some of the more recently discovered moons are yet to be named. All that we know of Jupiter couldn 't possibly have come form just observation. Some have come by spacecraft passing by Jupiter on their way to other missions and some of the most comprehensive…
A famously known asteroid named 52 Europa is the 6th largest known asteroid in the asteroid belt (the asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System which is located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. Lots of asteroids or minor planets i.e. Pluto occupy the asteroid belt) with a large diameter of 315 km. It was discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt in February 4th 1858 by using a telescope; he was in Paris at the time. Europa is named after one of Jupiter’s moon which is also called Europa. 52 Europa continues to orbit.…
Jupiter’s climate is very different to the climate on Earth, as well as the temperature that are much colder. Jupiter is a gaseous planet and so it does not have a solid surface, because of it being made out of gas it technically has no surface. Temperatures range from high to low on Jupiter because of all the types of gases and layers that they are in, such as the upper atmosphere where it is colder and increases closer to the center. At the top of Jupiter’s clouds the temperature is around -230 degrees Fahrenheit or -145 degrees Celsius. Jupiter’s temperature increases as you descend closer to the center of the planet. The temperature can increase so much to the point where atmospheric pressure is ten times greater than that on Earth and the temperature is 21 degrees Celsius which scientists call “room temperature.” This part of Jupiter is believed to possibly be able to support life, which would have to float and not need oxygen. To be exact Jupiter’s atmosphere contains 99% hydrogen and helium, the other 1% consists of methane, ammonia, water vapor, and trace elements. Under this layer of clouds which would also be the atmosphere, lie a sea of liquid hydrogen and helium that is 13,000 miles deep, and finally the core of Jupiter where the temperature is so high it is said to be hotter than the suns surface. From this came a small belief that Jupiter was a failed star because of the similarities to our sun. Some interesting facts about Jupiter weather are that it has very powerful storm systems, powerful lightning, and deadly radiation. Not unless we find a way to fight such extreme cold temperatures or live in a sort of cabin that floats and can provide oxygen, so I cannot really say we would be able to go because only in such a place can temperature be regulated and have oxygen provided for us to survive. Although we would not be able to go because of the complex weather system, some of Jupiter’s moon’s materials might be helpful…
Uranus is 50,724 km in diameter and it is the third largest planet. There are 27 known moons orbiting Uranus, they are named after Shakespearean characters, and also a few characters from Alexander Pope’s novels. The largest moons are Oberon and Titania. Oberon is ancient, has many craters and no signs of activity underneath the surface. There are 13 known rings around Uranus. From closest to farthest away from Uranus, the rings are 1986U2R(Zeta), 6, 5, 4, Alpha, Beta, Eta, Gamma, Delta, Lambda, Epsilon, Nu and Mu. the observers in the Kuiper Airborne Observatory and the Pert Observatory discovered Uranus’s rings on accident in 1977.…
Neptune's diameter is about 49,100 kilometres, or almost 4 times that of Earth. The planet is about 13 times as massive as Earth, but it is not so dense as earth. It has 8 satellites (moons). Astronomers have also detected several rings around Neptune. Neptune cannot be seen without a telescope. Pluto crossed Neptune's orbit on January 23, 1979, and will remain within it until March 15, 1999. So that is how Neptune was…
The atmosphere of Uranus has gases that make the planet impossible for life to live on. Since the atmosphere is composed of hydrogen, helium, and methane there is a minimal amount of oxygen on Uranus. Therefore, any organism could not survive, as every living thing needs oxygen. Since the planet is completely made of gas, the planet is considered a gas giant. Due…