1. By: Elizabeth, Jacob, Michael, Anthony JUPITER

2. ATMOSPHERE  Hydrogen and helium make up 92% of Jupiter  When Jupiter formed 4.6 billion years ago, it did not have enough mass to allow nuclear fusion to begin so it never became a star.  The alternating light and dark burst of its surface makes Jupiter unique in our solar system.  Orange, grey, blue, and white bands spread out parallel to the equator. The colors suggest the presence of organic molecules mixed with ammonia, methane, and water vapor.  Jupiter's rapid rotation causes the gases to swirl around the planet and form the bands.  The average temperature of Jupiter's outer atmosphere layers is 160 degrees. Jupiter has lightning storms and thunderstorms that are much larger than those of earth.

3. WEATHER  Jupiter has storms that grow up to cover up thousands of km in hours.  Last up to hundreds of years  It has clouds made up of ammonia crystals that can be seen as bands of yellow, brown and white.  Clouds are located in the tropopouse and are arranged into bands of different latitudes.  The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is located 22 degrees south of the equator and is larger in diameter than earth.  Weather on Jupiter is damaging at all times, but sudden storms can be an impossible hazard for space craft to overcome.

4. STORMS  Jupiter's most distinctive feature is its Great Red Spot. The Great Red Spot is a giant rotating storm, similar to a hurricane on Earth, that has been raging for at least several hundred years.  Sometimes the smaller storms are swallowed up by the larger ones.  Great Red Spot is a long-lived enormous storm system on the planet Jupiter and the most conspicuous feature of its visible cloud surface.  It is generously reddish in color, slightly oval in shape, and approximately 16,500 km wide – large enough to engulf earth.  Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm system.

5. INTERIOR  Jupiter's large mass causes the temperature and pressure in Jupiter's interior to be much greater than they are inside earth.  The intense pressure temperatures as high as 30,000 degrees Celsius have changed Jupiter's interior into a sea of liquid, metallic hydrogen.  Electric currents in this hot liquid maybe the source of Jupiter's enormous magnetic field.  Scientist think that Jupiter has a solid, rocky, iron core at its center.

8. VIDEO http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?requiredfields=description&proxystylesheet=s ite_search&output=xml_no_dtd&client=site_search&getfields=%2A&site=videos&q=jupiter & http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?requiredfields=description&proxystylesheet=s ite_search&output=xml_no_dtd&client=site_search&getfields=%2A&site=videos&q=jupiter & http://www.sciencechannel.com/video-topics/space-videos/space-school-jupiter/