Jupiter Mikayla Sivulka and Michael Duran Jupiter was discovered blue because it was facing the sun in a certain way which made it look blue.

The History Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter in Italy in 1610 and it was found looking through a telescope. Its name means mythology Zeus. This is Jupiter’s symbol.

SOLAR SYSTEM o Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. o It is 484 million miles from the sun. o It takes 433,259 days to orbit around the sun. o It takes 9 hours and 55 minutes to rotate around the solar system.

Moons Jupiter has 4 moons:  Europa  Ganymede  Calisto  Io

Planet appearance  Jupiter looks like a red, orange, yellow, and brown planet.  It also has tan stripes, one black spot and a red spot that was there for 300 years.  It looks like a huge basket ball.  The red spot is bigger than Earth.

 Jupiter has one ring that is impossible to see from Earth.  We could only see the ring by sending a robot to Jupiter. Rings

Exploration  No one ever has been on Jupiter before.  But we sent a robot to Jupiter to take a picture and was sent on September 1, 1979 it returned November 13,  People can’t go on Jupiter because Jupiter is a gassy planet, and people call it the Gas Giant. There is no solution.

 Jupiter spins fast for a little bit and than very slow. It has 64 moons and Jupiter has more gravity than Earth. Jupiter is the fourth biggest thing in the sky.  It has a rocky core inside of it. The weather on Jupiter has a lot of dust storms because there is a red and black spot that makes the dust storms over 300 years. If I am 60 pounds on Earth, than I weigh pounds on Jupiter.