... strong jet streams, smearing its clouds into bands across the planet. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can get bright enough to cast shadows. Table 1 Physical Data of Jupiter Volume: 1.43 x 1015  km3 Equatorial Inclination to Orbit: 3.1 ° Density: 1.33 g/cm3 Angular Diameter: 29.8" " 50.1" Surface Area: 6. ... outer layer, composed of a gaseous mixture of hydrogen, helium, and traces of other compounds, is about 600 miles thick. Jupiter is about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium by mass with traces of methane, water, ammonia, and "rock"(Jupiter"). This is close to the composition of the prim...

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... be possible, thus allowing the planet to become more habitable. The atmospheric circulation system is less complex than Earth's because there are no bodies of water on Mars to influence wind patterns. Mars has its distinctive red color due to the oxidizing atmosphere that contains some material that produces iron in the surface ground, making it rusty. Temperature on Mars Mars is a cold ... affect the planet's heat balance, seasons, and occurrence of water vapor clouds ("Exploring the Planets"). They decrease the daytime temperature and increase the nighttime temperature. In the springt...

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... Planets 6 the planets in this solar system. " Its mass represents more than two-thirds of the total mass of all the planets, or 318 times the mass of the Earth. Jupiters density is quite low at 1.3 g/cubic cm. The atmosphere of Jupiter contains water, ammonia, methane and carbon. It is thought by scientists that there are three cloud layers. The wind activity on Jupiter is ... rings are faint or diffuse. The rings are what Jupiter is known for. Saturn is a planet which is also known for its rings and when viewed has a yellow or grayish color. The color is from the gaseous atmosphere and...

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... is littered with winding channels that resemble river channels that have dried up over time. Scientists believe that water once existed and caused the formation of these channels. It is said that, Mars remains the best candidate for life in the solar system outside of the Earth, and that is what makes Mars so interesting to scientists. Jupiter is the fifth planet and ... rings are faint or diffuse. The rings are what Jupiter is known for. Saturn is a planet, which is also known for its rings, and when viewed has a yellow or grayish color. The color is from the gaseous atmosphere and the...

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... Planets 6 the planets in this solar system. " Its mass represents more than two-thirds of the total mass of all the planets, or 318 times the mass of the Earth. Jupiters density is quite low at 1.3 g/cubic cm. The atmosphere of Jupiter contains water, ammonia, methane and carbon. It is thought by scientists that there are three cloud layers. The wind activity on Jupiter is ... rings are faint or diffuse. The rings are what Jupiter is known for. Saturn is a planet which is also known for its rings and when viewed has a yellow or grayish color. The color is from the gaseous atmosphere and...

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... Mercury. This high temperature is primarily due to a run away green house effect caused by the heavy atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Date from Magellan's imaging radar shows that Venus probably once had large amount of water like Earth but it all boiled away this make it quite a dry planet now (Venus 2). Recent ... the Moon cause some strange effects, the most obvious being the tides in the oceans (Moon 2). Although the moon has no atmosphere, evidence suggests that water ice may exist in some deep craters near the Moon's south pole, which is permanently shaded. The moons surface is covere...

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... brightest lights in the sky, where it does not twinkle like the stars do, and also has a faint greenish color that makes it stand out from the rest. Even though Saturn is not unique as it shares similarities with the other gas planets of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, like the rings, it still has various unique differences in its own right. Saturn ... when looking at Saturn are just the top layer of a very deep layer that covers the center of liquid hydrogen. The different color gases produce belts of streak-like swirls surrounding the planet. The swirls are a series of storms on the plan...

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... or ethane; water would be frozen due to Titan's low surface temperature. Expecting an unusual world, Voyager 1 was programmed to take numerous close up views of Titan as it flew past in November of 1980. Unfortunately, all that was revealed was an impenetrable layer of atmosphere and clouds. Only slight color and brightness variations were observed. Although Titan is classified as ... be about -178°C (-289F). Methane appears to be below its saturation pressure near Titan's surface; rivers and lakes of methane probably don't exist, in spite of the tantalizing analogy to water on Earth. ...

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... Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The outer planets travel slower around the sun and it spins a lot slower. Earth is a little different from the rest of the planets. This is the only planet that is known to have living life on it. Earth has air that humans can breath. Not many people will know this ... it is the only planet names after a Greek god. Earth is also the only planet that has bodies of water like the ocean and rivers. People have studied the other planets and have not found life on any of them. There are some interesting facts about the solar system.. If the earth ...

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Mars The planet Mars is nicknamed the god of war. The Planet probably got its name from its red color, Mars is sometimes called the red planet. Mars" orbit is significant because it is elliptical. Mars average temperature is about -55C ... than the earth's and a thin crust. With Mars relatively low density compared to the other planets its appears that its core probably contains a relatively large fraction of sulfur in addition to iron. Mars also appears to lack active plate tectonics . Having no lateral plate motion, hot spots under the crust stay in a fixed ... position relative to the su...

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... rocks resemble basalt lava, and the soil chemistry is like that of weathered, altered basalt. There are water and sulfur compounds in the soil. The sky is not blue but pink, its color caused by fine suspended particles of red dust. The polar caps are largely made of water ice. The winds at the surface of Mars are light, 15 miles per hour. The surface temperature ranges ... from about -120 •X F ! at night to -20 •X F in the afternoon. Fog and clouds occur despite the fact that the water content of the atmosphere is less ... than 0.1 percent that of the air on Earth. The surface pres...

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... brightness rises quickly to its highest possible point then fades away slowly over a period of a few days. Spectroscopy has given information about the movement of stars in space. In 1842 Christian Doppler hypothesized that the velocity of a star would affect the color of starlight. He believed that the wavelength of the light of a star that is moving away from us (Earth) would be lengthened which would make ... structures on Venus and are huge with rough, circular characteristics. The atmosphere of Venus has a massive strength of about 90 times that of Earths and its level is found at ...

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... It is a very easy planet to pick out in the sky because it is one of the brightest lights in the shy. It also has a very faint greenish color that makes it stand out from the rest of the objects in the sky ("Astronomy for Kids"). Saturn is the second largest planet in ... size being in the marble to basketball range - about 10 centimeters (four inches). These particles are extremely cold and are possibly composed of frozen water and other ices. An extensive cloud of hydrogen was also discovered around the rings. The rings might have resulted when a moon or a passing body ventured too clos...

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... thrown outward as the planet rotates, similar to the manner in which mud is thrown outward from a spinning wheel. Jupiter's outer layer, composed of a gaseous mixture of hydrogen, helium, and traces of hydrogen-rich compounds such as ammonia, methane, and water vapor, is about 600 miles thick. Stripes, Rings, and Moons From a distance Jupiter appears to have horizontal stripes, which result from winds that ... shear its cloud layers into sharply defined bands. These bands circle the planet, with winds along the edges of adjacent bands blowing in opposite directions. Some of the cloud ba...

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... it is thirty one thousand miles across. Uranus has fifteen moons. Now I"m going to answer my questions. Uranus contains mostly rock and water, with hydrogen and helium, and trace amounts of methane in its dense atmosphere. The blue-green color of this planet comes from the methane gas present in Uranus's cold clear atmosphere. Uranus probably has a small rocky core smaller than Earths with ... a radius no larger than 1240 miles. The cores temperature is about 12,000 degrees f. The body of liquid on Uranus accounts for most of the planets volume. The atmosphere of Uranus, which contains ...

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