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The Giant Planets – “Gas Giants”
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Mostly H and H compounds under very high pressure in interior + small rocky core
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Jupiter
Distance 5.2 AU from Sun
Diameter 11 x Earth
Mass 318 x Earth
Mean density 1.3 gm/cm3
17 moons , 4 large terrestrial Galilean satellites
Space missions Pioneer 10 & 11, 1973, 1974
Voyager 1 & 2 1979
Galileo 1996
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Jovian atmosphere, cloud layers
H, He
Methane
Ammonia
Great red spot – large anti-cyclonic, high pressure region
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Atmosphere and Interior
From models based on
Hydrostatic equilibrium
Increasing temp and pressure inwards
Rocky core – 10 – 20 Mearth
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Magnetosphere
Ring System
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4 Galilean satellites
Io Europa Ganymede Callisto
These are terrestrial planets
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Io - most active surface in solar system
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Europa
Smooth young surface, layer of ice, crustal faulting
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Ganymede and Callisto
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Saturn -- rings and Titan
Distance 9.5 AU from Sun
Diameter 9.4 x Earth
Mass 95 x Earth
Mean Density 0,7 gm/cm3
18 moons, Titan largest
Space missions
Cassini-Huygens orbiter and lander on Titan 2005
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Atmosphere and Interior
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Rings
274,000 km across, < 1 km thick
Thousands of narrow ringlets, individual
particles of frozen gas, mostly H2O
What formed the rings -- Roche lobe
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Atmosphere, N and N compounds, methane
From Cassini mission
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Huygens Lander on Titan