AST 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Atmosphere Of Jupiter, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, Metallic Hydrogen
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Permanent because of the movement of jupiter. See(cid:373)s to (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g s(cid:373)aller, (cid:271)ut is(cid:374)"t disappeari(cid:374)g: has a pressure 3 million times of earth, has differential rotation, has a tilt of 3. 1 degrees, 1 year= 11. 86 earth years, orbital speed is 13 km/s at 5 au. Composition: 89. 9% hydrogen, 10. 2% helium, 0. 3% methane, 0. 02% argon, 0. 0004% h2o. Jupiter convection: has a huge convection process. Magnetosphere: synchronous rotation, high energy radiation trapped by the magnetic field lines, spiral radiation. 4 moons galilee are io, europa, ganymede, and calisto. Yellow/ orange color because of the sulfur. Ice cracks that are floating on some liquid that is assumed is water. Old moon with a lot of craters. Jupiter rings: jupiter has rings, they have no shin, no ice, and no reflection, made of a plasma, that is a mix of charged particles, not visible because it is really dark, 1992, july 9. A comet broke into 20 fragments and all were heading towards jupiter.
