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... crush a human. Like the other gas giant outer planets, Jupiter has no solid surface. A Galileo probe, released into Jupiter's atmosphere, lasted for just under an hour and traveled 93 ... descend, it likely melted and vaporized in the extreme heat. In addition, the radiation near Jupiter is at least 25 times more powerful than the dose considered deadly to humans. ---- Answer ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - JUPITER

... Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini space probes captured the best images we have of Jupiter. This dramatic view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its surroundings was obtained by Voyager 1 on February 25, 1979, when the spacecraft was5.7 million miles from Jupiter. Cloud details as small as 100 miles across can be seen here. The wavy cloud ... is a region of extraordinarily complex and variable wave motion. To give a sense of Jupiter's scale, the white oval storm directly below the Great Red Spot is approximately the ...

... year and six months. The Pioneer 10 probe, launched in March of 1972, arrived at Jupiter in December of 1973, traveling for a year and nine months. The Cassini mission, launched in October of 1997, did not arrive at Jupiter until December of 2000, traveling for over three years. The Galileo spacecraft, launched in October of 1989, finally arrived at Jupiter in December of 1995, taking well over six years to arrive. ---- Answer provided by Laura ...

... smoke-like dust particles knocked from its moons by meteor impacts. An outer ring, circling Jupiter backwards, also exists. The ring's origin is uncertain, but it might be composed of interplanetary dust captured by Jupiter's gravity pull. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

... "family portrait," a composite of the Jovian system, includes the edge of Jupiter with its Great Red Spot, and Jupiter's four largest moons, also known as the Galilean satellites. From top ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - JUPITER

... Cassini mission (1999). The Galileo orbiter is the only mission to actually orbit the planet Jupiter, studying the planet for seven years from 1995 until 2003. There are two future probes, Juno and JIMO, which are planned to study Jupiter after 2010. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and ...

... of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 54 54 '''Page ''' - 147-152 '''Year''' - 2001 '''Keywords''' - Jupiter, Galileo mission, Europa, water, life '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2001.54.147 '''Number of Pages''' - 6 Abstract The atmosphere of Jupiter and the surfaces of the large satellites, including Europa, have been under study by instruments ...

... powerful figure in Roman mythology—also known as Zeus to the Greeks. However, because Jupiter is visible to the naked eye, even the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians knew of the ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - JUPITER

... Earth's and a planetary volume of over 1300 times that of Earth's. While Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, scientists have recently discovered planets in other ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - JUPITER

... up of hydrogen. Other components include helium, methane, ammonia, ethane and water. The composition of Jupiter is very close to the composition of the solar nebula from which our solar system ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - JUPITER

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