Jupiter Review Flashcards
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How many Earths can fit into the volume of Jupiter?
112
Jupiter is noticeably oblate because: What is the rotation rate in hours of Jupiter?
9 hours and 55 min
What is the most impressive feature in the Jupiter atmosphere and how long has it been there?
The great red spot, Over 3 Centuries
The white zones of Jupiter’s atmosphere are composed primarily of?
hydrogen, helium, water, and ammonia.
The rotation of Jupiter’s atmosphere are composed primarily of?
hydrogen and helium
The first spacecraft to drop a weather probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere was?
Galileo ; Demise of Galileo.
What is the name used to describe the dark bands encircling Jupiter?
Belts
In size, from largest to smallest, the correct order for the Galilean moons is:
Galilean, Satelites, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, Europa
Of the galilean moons, the one with striking grooved terrain and icy tectonic features as well as older craters is:
Ganymede
What spacecraft was intentionally destroyed in 2003 so that it could not hit Europa
Galileo
The last space craft to visit Jupiter and its moons was?
Cassini
What is jupiter’s ring made out of?
Reflective Dust
Io’s “pizza pie” colors come from eruptions of _____ and it’s compounds.
Sulfur
The moon of jupiter most likely to habor marine life, according to Galileo is?
Europa
Flybys of Europa and Ganymede found weak, variable magnetic fields, according to data sent back by
Galileo
What would happen to Jupiter for it to become a star?
Gain 80 times more mass
What is the source of Jupiter’s excess energy?
Slow escape gravity, Energy release from planet formation.
What is thought to lie at the center of Jupiter?
Rocky Core
The magnetosphere of Jupiter generates and the planet(s) that it extends past?
Voyagers 1 and 2
How many moons have been found orbiting the planet Jupiter?
63
The elements that compose the atmosphere are?
H, He, Methane, Ammonia, other energetic elements.
The color in the atmosphere of Jupiter is due to?
Different Chemicals reflected from the sun’s light
Jupiter is largest and brightest as seen from Earth at?
Opposition
The apparent “surface” of Jupiter is actually the tops of?
Clouds
Jupiter does not appear to rotate as a solid body: the observed shows rotation
that we are actually viewing a gaseous object in?
Differential Rotation
Jupier’s moon that is even bigger than Mercury, the largest satellite in the
solar system is:
Ganymede
The source of Io’s internal energy which drives its volcanism is the
gravitational tug-of-war between it,
Jupiter, and: Europa
The largest impact feature on Callisto is _______ , similar to Mare Orientale
on our Moon and Caloris on Mercury.
Valhalla
How large is Jupiter’s magnetosphere?
It is a million times the volume of the Earth’s, extending beyond the orbit of Saturn.
What do our magnetic field and Jupiter’s share?
we are the only ones who have a bow shot, jupiters is a million times stronger than ours.
The surface of which Galilean moon most resembles the pack ice of the Arctic
Ocean?
Europa
Jupiter’s upward moving warm gases create?
Europa 33 Zones
The bright zones of Jupiter atmosphere are made of (bright light).
Lightning
The spacecraft that have observed Jupiter are?
Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini, Galileo
Besides THE RED SPOT what else can be seen in the atmosphere of Jupiter?
Short lived storms and lightning
Which of Jupiter’s Galilean moons is located in the ring of Jupiter?
Io, Ganymede, Europa, Galileo
How much does the mass of Jupiter compare with that of the other planets?
2x as much as all the other planets combined
