Jupiter

Science Concept & Application

Jupiter is very interesting. Jupiter is 229.37 feet and is also 88,695 miles long. But there is a warning about. Never go close to Jupiter. Jupiter can pull you in then there will be no way out, so you can either die from suffocation or starvation.
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Jupiter has 95 moons and all are unique in different ways, like one moon travels in the opposite way that the others do. One of the moon's names is Titan. All of the planets in our solar system can fit inside Jupiter. Jupiter is a very cold planet. Jupiter is negative 160 degrees fahrenheit.

Jupiter has rings but they are hard to see. Jupiter is a gas giant. One day on Jupiter is 10 hours. A year on Jupiter is 11.8 Earth years. Jupiter is named after a Roman god. Jupiter orbits 473.03 million miles from his sun. Jupiter is 416.84 million miles from the Sun.

Career

Planetary scientists ,aka Astronomers, study Jupiter, which is the biggest planet in the solar system. Astronomers the Atmosphere, the Surface, and the interior. Atmospheric scientists, Geologists, & Astrobiologists study different aspects of Jupiter. Atmospheric scientists study how Jupiter's storms work, Geologists study the geysers & volcanoes on Jupiter’s moons, & Astrobiologists search for signs of life.

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Scientist

The scientist that studied Jupiter is Galileo Galilei. Galileo built his own telescope in 1609. He found different discoveries. He found that the surface of the moon is not smooth. He saw that the milky way is made of many different stars. He learned that venus has phases and the sun has dark spots called sunspots.