1. Ch. 29 Sec. 3 Gas Giant Planets

2. Gas Giants Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen Satellites and rings systems Very large in Size

3. Jupiter Largest Planet: 11x larger and Earth  70% of all Planetary matter in our solar system Albedo =.343 4 main satellites – discovered by Galileo Low Density: H2 and He  Liquid metallic hydrogen: form w/ properties of both liquid and metal’  Electric Currents exist and create a magnetic field

4. Jupiter Rapid rotation causes clouds  Belts: Low, warm, dark colored clouds  Zones: high, cool, light colored  Red Spot: atmospheric storm Moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto  Galilean Satellites  Ice and rock mixtures Rings: 6400 km wide

5. Jupiter

6. Saturn Sixth planet & 2 nd Largest Avg. density is 2/3 that of water: it floats Belts and Zones Ring System  7 main rings: little rings called ringlets He and H 2 are the main gases Satellite: Titan is the largest of Saturn's moons

7. Saturn

8. Uranus Seventh planet, found by accident Two main satellites  Oberon and Titania Atmoshpere  4 x larger  He, H 2, and CH 4 (causes the blue glow) Primarily fluid w/ a small solid core Axis tipped so much that N. Pole lies almost on the orbital plane  Due to a collision

9. Uranus

10. Neptune Neptune was predicted before discovered due to the way Uranus was rotating  Law of Universal Gravitation Atmosphere  He, H 2, and CH 4  Dark Blue spot: Storm Triton is largest satellite

11. Neptune