NATS 1740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Giant Planet, Galilean Moons, Metallic Hydrogen

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1740
• Professor: Randy Hoffman

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The jovian planets are made mostly of hydrogen, helium and hydrogen compounds. Jupiter and saturn less hydrogen compounds and less rock and metal. Neptune and uranus contain less hydrogen and helium. The jovian planets nearer to the sun captured more hydrogen and helium gas making them larger and leaving them with smaller proportions of hydrogen compounds, rock and metal (jupiter and saturn) If you plunged below jupiters clouds, you would never encounter a solid surface. All the jovian plants have cloudy skies but clouds of different kinds form at different altitudes in each planets atmosphere. The rapid rotation of jovian planets helps drive strong winds creating their banded appearances and sometimes giving rise to huge storms. Jupiter"s red spot is a gigantic storm. 8. 2 a wealth of worlds: satellites of ice and rock. A few jovian moons rival the smallest planets in size and geological interest while vast numbers of smaller moons are captured asteroids and comets.