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Researched by John, Gavin and Colby

Location

• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun.

• The Sun is about 484 million miles (779 million kilometers) from Jupiter.

• It takes 12 Earth years to get to Jupiter.

Composition

• The core is made from rock.

• Electricity runs through the liquid hydrogen.

• Jupiter has three rings.

• The rings are made of dark rocks and dust.

• Jupiter is also made of liquid hydrogen gas.

Unique Facts

• Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System.• Jupiter has more than 60 moons.• Jupiter’s core is 15 times the size of Earth.• It is more than one and one half times as big as the other eight planets put together.

Previous Missions

• The most recent attempt to reach Jupiter was made in 1989 with the launch of the Galileo spacecraft.

• Traveling a hundred thousand miles an hour, the unmanned spaceship took six years to reach Jupiter.

Conclusion

• We figured out that you can’t live on Jupiter because it is too hot.

• You would just sink through the gas.

Robot Exploration• Our robot is called Join

Journey Jupiter. • It has suction-cup hands

for picking samples. • The head turns 360

degrees. • We have dowels for the

axles and wooden wheels for the wheels.

• The eyes are telescopic eyes.

• The box is the main part of the robot body.

MRS. STONE’S CLASS –JOHN, GAVIN, COLBY

Journey Jupiter

Bibliography

• Zobel,Derek. Jupiter. 2010.• Jennings,Terry. Our Universe. 1992.• Vogt,Gregory L. Jupiter. 2000 • Simon,Seymour. Destination Jupiter.

1998.