Believe it or don’t, but when you peer through a telescope and look at Jupiter’s Great Red Spot you are witnessing what Leonard Nimoy might term the cosmic ballet. Even cooler, you are witnessing something that Galileo never saw, and not because he wasn’t technologically capable. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been around for less ...
Are you searching for kid’s facts about the planet Jupiter? Are you doing a science report on Jupiter? Or, are you a home school parent working on a lesson plan about the solar system? Just searching for some random trivia about planets? Here are a few fun facts for kids about the planet Jupiter. If ...
Ganymede Ganymede is the largest moon in the whole solar system with a diameter of 5268km. This moon of Jupiter was one of the four discovered by Galileo in 1610. It has an old, ice surface with many dark and pale areas. Craters are widespread, with recent ones showing up huge areas of white, where ...
Astronomers have recently been able to capture on film an event that only happens every forty-two years or so. The rings of the planet Uranus are now directly perpendicular to the Earth, allowing astronomers to catch a glimpse of the structures and patterns of the rings not normally available. The new pictures have also allowed ...
Statistics Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun, between Mars and Saturn. It is the largest planet in the solar system, having a diameter of about 88,846 miles, compared to Earth, which only has a diameter of 7,926 miles. Its average distance from the sun is 483,631,840 miles, one day is equal to nearly ...