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| You see the white oval? That's Jupiter smashing a meteorite |
Hubble's deep field image
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Jupiter
The 5th planet in the solar system and the first gas giant, it is also the biggest planet. The majority of its atmosphere is made up of methane. It has had a storm in it for 300 year, you may know this as the red spot!
It has very thin rings from moons that has been smashed apart. A surprising fact about Jupiter is that it took only 10,000 years to form, which is very fast in astronomical terms.
Jupiter is like a body guard for Earth, as it smashes meteorites, that would otherwise hit Earth. Without Jupiter, we would possibly be dead by now. Another fact is that Jupiter has 63 moons and its gravitational field stretches over to Saturn!
Well guys that's it, see you!
It has very thin rings from moons that has been smashed apart. A surprising fact about Jupiter is that it took only 10,000 years to form, which is very fast in astronomical terms.
Jupiter is like a body guard for Earth, as it smashes meteorites, that would otherwise hit Earth. Without Jupiter, we would possibly be dead by now. Another fact is that Jupiter has 63 moons and its gravitational field stretches over to Saturn!
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