1. Jupiter

2. 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: 1.326 gm/cc Four large satellites, 59 others

3. The Largest Planet

4. Pioneer 10 and 11 were first to Jupiter, 1973

5. Pioneer 10-11, 1972-1974

6. Voyager I-II 1977-1979

7. Galileo 1989-1995

8. Galileo’s Atmospheric Probe

9. Io, Europa and Jupiter

10. The Great Red Spot

11. Jupiter is Hot Inside

12. Jupiter Movie

13. Jupiter Has a Very Thin Ring

14. The Moons of Jupiter: Callisto Ganymede Europa Io

15. 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.

16. Valhalla Basin, Callisto

17. Ganymede: Largest Moon in the Solar System

18. Close-up of Ganymede

19. Europa

20. Europa’s Icy Crust

21. Unexpected Io

22. An Eruption on Io

23. Loki’s Molten Sulfur Lake

24. Lava Flows on Io

25. Eruption on Io

26. Amalthea

27. The Impact of Comet Schumacher-Levy For the first time ever, in 1994 we witnessed the impact of a comet with a planet.

28. Comet Schumacher -Levy

29. Impact! A still-hot impact site rotates into view (infrared view)

30. Impact Fireball

31. Impact of Comet Schumacher- Levy 9, 1993

32. Impact as Seen by Galileo