All About Jupiter
Jupiter was named after this
What is the Roman's king of gods, Jupiter, who was the god of the sky and of thunder?
The number of years it took Galileo to get to Jupiter.
What is 6 years?
The hours it takes for Jupiter to rotate one time.
What is 10 hours?
The number of children Jupiter has.
What is more than 50 moons with an additional 17 moons awaiting confirmation of their discovery?
A giant storm (like a hurricane) that travels around the planet.
What is the Great Red Spot?
What is Jupiter's gravity?
The problem Galileo had when it got out into space.
What is it's big antenna wouldn't open?
The length of a night on Jupiter.
What is 5 hours?
The smallest of the Galilean moons.
What is Europa?
When a spacecraft gets close to a planet, the planet's gravity grabs the spaceship.
What is gravity assist?
The number of miles Jupiter is away from the sun.
What is 484 million miles?
The number of NASA spacecraft that have collected information about Jupiter.
What is 8 NASA spacecraft?
The number of Earth years it takes for Jupiter to orbit the sun.
What is 12 Earth years?
The famous astronomer who discovered Jupiter's 4 biggest satellites.
Who is Galileo?
It has small, rocky core, but all around this small core are swirling gases.
What is a gas giant?
The number of years the Great Red Spot has been raging on Jupiter.
What is more than 300 years?
The last thing Galileo did when it finished its mission on Jupiter.
What is it crashed into Jupiter disappearing beneath the foggy surface and into the unknown?
The age you would be on Jupiter if you were 132 years old.
What is 11 Earth years old?
The 4 biggest satellites orbiting Jupiter.
What is Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto?
The sun is made of these two gases.
What is hydrogen and helium?
The reason Jupiter is called the "little sun."
What is it has it's own heat source and it is made mostly of hydrogen and helium?
The date Galileo arrived on Jupiter.
What is July 1995?
Jovian refers to this Roman God.
What is Jovian, the Roman god of rain, thunder, and lighting.
The reddest object in the solar system.
What is Amalthea?