Great Balls of Gas: Jupiter and Saturn

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ammonium hydrosulfide

Telescopic images of Jupiter and Saturn reveal clouds that are composed of ammonia ice, water ice, and a substance known as ______. These trace substances are used to create cloud materials.

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hydrogen and helium

Similar to the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn primarily consist of _______.

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Great Red Spot (GRS)

The _____ on Jupiter and the other off-white tints in the clouds of the two large planets are mysteries to scientists.

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318

Jupiter is ____ times as massive as Earth.

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95

Saturn is about ______ times more massive than earth.

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Infrared light

This light illuminates Jupiter and Saturn intensely, giving off nearly as much energy as the Sun does.

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Jupiter

The star that failed.

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88,700 miles

Jupiter’s approximate diameter

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Belts

Jupiter’s darker bands of clouds.

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Zones

Jupiter’s lighter bands of clouds.

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Equatorial Zone

The North and South Equatorial Belts flank the _____, which runs straight down the middle of the disk.

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Great Red Spot

A storm in the South Equatorial Belt that at times has been as big as Earth and sometimes bigger.

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Callisto

  • Its surface is dark and covered in numerous white craters.

  • The surface is probably dirty ice — a mixture of ice and rock.

  • White craters are the result of large meteoroids, asteroids, and comet impacts that exposed the clean ice beneath.

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Valhalla

The most noticeable marking; is a huge-ringed impact basin in Callisto

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Europa

  • The surface of this moon is ridged and resembles ice rafts.

  • An underground ocean that is possibly 60 miles deep is covered by a frozen crust that is about 10 miles thick.

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Ganymede

  • It is the largest moon in the solar system, measuring 3,270 miles in diameter.

  • Light and dark terrains, possibly ice and rock, are scattered across its splotchy surface.

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Io

  • There are more than 400 volcanoes scattered across the surface of this moon.

  • It has no visible impact crater because all impact sites have been covered up by lava from the numerous volcanoes.

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75,000 miles

Saturn’s approximate diameter.

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Cassini Division

A gap in Saturn’s rings.

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great white storm

This storm can be seen in Saturn's northern hemisphere about once every 20 to 30 years.

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Titan

Saturn’s largest moon.

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aeolian

The dunes in Titan are ______ — the wind shapes them or forms them, like Earth’s sand dunes in deserts or at the beach.

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Cryovolcanism

The eruption of ice-cold material.

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