JUPITER 

1. Overview: 

a. Tell me two of the “Need-to-Know” facts about this planet. Scroll down the page of this planet if you have trouble finding them. 

1. Jupiter rotates once about every 10 hours (a Jovian day), but takes about 12 Earth years to complete one orbit of the Sun (a Jovian year)

2. Jupiter cannot support life as we know it. But some of Jupiter's moons have oceans beneath their crusts that might support life.

2. In Depth: 

a. Is this planet hot, cold, or in-between? ______cold___________________ 

b. What is it’s temperature range? Please answer in Celsius. 

___no data given on website__-100^oC to -160^oC_________________ 

c. What is the radius of this planet? Please give your answer in kilometers. 

____69911.029901 km_____________________________ 

d. Write down two words to describe the surface of this planet. 

i. _______Gaseous____________________ 

ii. _______Swirling____________________ 

e. Write down two words to describe the atmosphere of this planet. 

i. ______Colourful_____________________ 

ii. ______Stormy_____________________ 

3. By the Numbers: 

a. How big is this planet compared to Earth? 

_____Jupiter is 11.0x larger than earth____________________________ 

4. Exploration: 

a. Write down two significant events in the history of astronomy regarding this planet.

i. First observations made by Galileo Galilei in 1610 with his small homemade telescope.

ii. First fly-bys in the 70's where by NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2.

SATURN 

5. Overview: 

a. Tell me three of the “Need-to-Know” facts about this planet. Scroll down the page of this planet if you have trouble finding them. 

1. It is a gas giant and has no solid surface

2. Atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium

3. It may have as many as 82 moons

6. In Depth: 

a. Is this planet hot, cold, or in-between? ____cold_____________________ 

b. What is it’s temperature range? Please answer in Celsius. 

no information given on site _________-173^oC to -113^oC_______ 

c. What is the radius of this planet? Please give your answer in kilometers. _______58232.020493 km__________________________ 

d. Write down two words to describe the surface of this planet. 

i. __________gaseous_________________ 

ii. _________pressure__________________ 

e. Write down two words to describe the atmosphere of this planet. 

i. ________windy___________________ 

ii. _______cloudy____________________ 

7. By the Numbers: 

a. How big is this planet compared to Earth? 

_____Saturn is 9.1x bigger than earth____________ 

8. Exploration: 

a. Write down two significant events in the history of astronomy regarding this planet. 

i. __________first close look by Pioneer 11 in 1979_____________________________ 

ii. ____Cassini mission in 2004 is when our understanding began to take shape__________

URANUS

9. Overview: 

a. Tell me two of the “Need-to-Know” facts about this planet. Scroll down the page of this planet if you have trouble finding them. 

1. It is an ice giant. Most of its mass is a hot, dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane and ammonia – above a small rocky core.

2. It has 13 rings. Inner rings are narrow and dark, outer rings are brightly coloured

10. In Depth: 

a. Is this planet hot, cold, or in-between? _______cold__________________ 

b. What is it’s temperature range? Please answer in Celsius. 

_________-224.2^oC to -197^oC______________ 

c. What is the radius of this planet? Please give your answer in kilometers. ________25361.973965 km_________________________ 

d. Write down two words to describe the surface of this planet. 

i. ________Swirling___________________ 

ii. ________Fluid___________________ 

e. Write down two words to describe the atmosphere of this planet. 

i. ________Windy___________________ 

ii. ________Not Cloudy___________________ 

11. By the Numbers: 

a. How big is this planet compared to Earth? 

________Uranus is 4.0x bigger than earth_________________________ 

12. Exploration: 

a. Write down two significant events in the history of astronomy regarding this planet. 

i. _________________Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus___________ 

ii. ______Other information comes from the Hubble Space Telescope__________

NEPTUNE

13. Overview: 

a. Tell me two of the “Need-to-Know” facts about this planet. Scroll down the page of this planet if you have trouble finding them. 

1. It has 14 known moons named after sea gods and nymphs from greek mythology

2. Sometimes it is farther from the sun than pluto, due to pluto's elliptical orbit

14. In Depth: 

a. Is this planet hot, cold, or in-between? ________cold_________________ 

b. What is it’s temperature range? Please answer in Celsius. 

________no information given on the site_______-218^oC to -200^oC_____ 

c. What is the radius of this planet? Please give your answer in kilometers. _____185556.397594 km____________________________ 

d. How big is this planet compared to Earth? 

______Neptune is 3.9x bigger than earth___________________________ 

e. Write down two words to describe the surface of this planet. 

i. __________Gaseous_________________ 

ii. __________Liquid_________________ 

f. Write down two words to describe the atmosphere of this planet. 

i. ________Windy___________________ 

ii. ________Blue___________________ 

15. By the Numbers: 

a. How big is this planet compared to Earth? 

_____Neptune is 3.9x bigger than earth____________________________ 

16. Exploration: 

a. Write down two significant events in the history of astronomy regarding this planet. 

i. Galileo recorded Neptune as a fixed star during observations with his small telescope in 1612 and 1613

ii. Urbain Joseph Le Verrier proposed the existence of a planet that would explain the changes in Uranus’ orbit, and Johann Gottfried Galle found neptune on his first night of searching a the Berlin observatory in 1846.