Tuesday 12 March 2013

Jupiter planet

Basic concept of jupiter.

JUPITER:- 5th Planet from the Sun and Jupiter is largest planet of the solar system.Jupiter is also known as winter planet as its average temperature is very low 148 degree centigrade. Jupiter is also called lord of heavens.Its Atmosphere contains hydrogen,helium, methane and amonia. A great red spot is detected on it. It represents a huge storm a super hurricane,existing for hunderd of years, without abating. ROTATION : It has fasted rotation time 9.8 hrs in the solar system. REVOLUTION
:12 yrs. It has 66 satellites prominent are  Io,europa, ganymede and callissto called galileo galilei in january 1610. ganymede is the largest satellite of the solar system.Jupiter has been explored on several occasions by robotic spacecraft most natably during the early pioneer and voyager missions and later by Galileo Orbiter. The recent probe to visit jupiter was the pluto-bound new horizons sacecraft in late february 2007.The probe used the grauity from jupiter to increse its speed.

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