1. Huge Jovian Planets Our Solar System Planets to scale… vs.
Tiny Terrestrial Planets
vs.
Huge Jovian Planets

2. Our Solar System Layout to scale…
…Planet sizes not even visible at this scale!

3. The Jovian Worlds
of Our Solar System

4. Jupiter/jove = zeus (“king of the gods”)

6. Jovian Planet Interiors :
…but how do we know all of this?

7. Comet Shoemaker-Levy: Impact, July 1994!

9. How did the galileo satellite end its mission in sept. 2003?

11. Internal layers of planet jupiter

16. “Differential Rotation” for Gas Giants (like jupiter)

17. Convection in
jupiter’s atmosphere:

18. Turbulence , eddies, & spots in jupiter’s atmosphere:

19. jupiter’s “great red spot” !

20. The “Great red spot”… a “permanent hurricane”
observed by hooke & cassini since the 1660’s !

29. The famous “galilean moons” (Pics courtesy of nasa)