Jupiter

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Jupiter
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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

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The Largest Planet
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Pioneer 10 and 11 were first to Jupiter, 1973
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Pioneer 10-11, 1972-1974
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Voyager I-II1977-1979
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Galileo 1989-1995
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Galileos Atmospheric Probe
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Io, Europa and Jupiter
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The Great Red Spot
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Jupiter is Hot Inside
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Jupiter Movie
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Jupiter Has a Very Thin Ring
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The Moons of JupiterCallisto
GanymedeEuropa Io
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CallistoThis is what everyone expected
Jupiters moons to look like.This was about the
last thing that looked like we expected it to.
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Valhalla Basin, Callisto
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GanymedeLargest Moon in the Solar System
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Close-up of Ganymede
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Europa
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Europas Icy Crust
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Unexpected Io
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An Eruption on Io
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Lokis Molten Sulfur Lake
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Lava Flows on Io
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Eruption on Io
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Amalthea
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The Impact of Comet Schumacher-Levy

• For the first time ever, in 1994 we witnessed the
  impact of a comet with a planet.

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Comet Schumacher-Levy
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Impact!A still-hot impact site rotates into
view (infrared view)
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Impact Fireball
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Impact of Comet Schumacher-Levy 9, 1993
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Impact as Seen by Galileo