Jupiterian Moon Lab Report

The scale size of Jupiter was found by dividing its diameter in kilometers, which is 142,984, by the Sun’s diameter ( 1,391,900 km ). The calculated total is 0.1027 and then was multiplied by 14cm with a total of 1.44cm. The distance was calculated by dividing Jupiter’s actual distance ( 778,140,000 km ) by its actual diameter ( 142,984 km ) and then multiplied by 1.44 cm. The result of the calculation is 7,836.69cm or 0.0487 miles. With the distance figured out, we were able to determine how far away to place the planet from the Sun. Given the information we have, a map of the campus, and some discussion with the Jupiterian Moon group, we were able to determine the best location for our planet would be in Brown Hall. Within Brown Hall, we

Lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium were swept away from areas closer to the sun by solar wind, yet further out from the sun, beyond the frost line, these elements were able to condense and eventually, start forming the gas giants. This would not be possible without the formation of Jupiter's rocky core. The core accretion model suggests that in order for a planet to develop, it must first accumulate a core, and then the gravity from this core, the more massive it is the more gravity it possesses, will enable it to acquire the lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium. A gas giant’s core must reach around fifteen times the size of the Earth’s mass in order to catch gaseous elements into its gravitational field. This is why our planet, which is not very massive in comparison to Jupiter, uses these elements to form an atmosphere, rather than the actual surface. Moving out from the core, which is primarily made of liquid, metallic hydrogen, we see a gradual transition to a more gaseous form of hydrogen and some helium, with hydrogen forming around ninety percent of the atmosphere and helium forming the other ten percent

Galileo discovered that Jupiter had four large moons which were, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, and Lo. They were then referred to as the Galilean moons. Fast forwarding to the 1970's and Jupiter was had the Pioneer 10 spaceship fly by it in 1973. After that the spacecraft Galileo orbited Jupiter for eight years. It was later discovered that Jupiter did not have a solid surface, and the gas giant had denser gas below. Later discovered that the different colors seen on Jupiter is due to the chemicals that react to the air. Jupiter is also radiating more heat than receiving from the sun this is due to how big the planet is, and the core having a temperature around 20,000 K .

In 2003 it was discovered to have around 23 moons orbiting Jupiter. In 2011 an orbiter was launched in 2011 and arrived at Jupiter in 2016. This was launched to “understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter”. This will bring new discoveries of “understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars”. Also research if there is water under the dense gas. Currently the plan is for Juno, one of the spacecraft sent to orbit Jupiter, to complete it's mission and finish its data collection of