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: gm/cc Four large satellites, 59 others
The Largest Planet
Pioneer 10 and 11 were first to Jupiter, 1973
Pioneer 10-11,
Voyager I-II
Galileo
Galileo’s Atmospheric Probe
Io, Europa and Jupiter
The Great Red Spot
Jupiter is Hot Inside
Jupiter Movie
Jupiter Has a Very Thin Ring
The Moons of Jupiter: Callisto Ganymede Europa Io
Callisto This is what everyone expected Jupiter’s moons to look like. This was about the last thing that looked like we expected it to.
Valhalla Basin, Callisto
Ganymede: Largest Moon in the Solar System
Close-up of Ganymede
Europa
Europa’s Icy Crust
Unexpected Io
An Eruption on Io
Loki’s Molten Sulfur Lake
Lava Flows on Io
Eruption on Io
Amalthea
The Impact of Comet Schumacher-Levy For the first time ever, in 1994 we witnessed the impact of a comet with a planet.
Comet Schumacher -Levy
Impact! A still-hot impact site rotates into view (infrared view)
Impact Fireball
Impact of Comet Schumacher- Levy 9, 1993
Impact as Seen by Galileo