Jupiter Review

Question 1

How many Earths can fit into the volume of Jupiter?

Answer 1

112

Question 1

Jupiter is noticeably oblate because: What is the rotation rate in hours of Jupiter?

Answer 1

9 hours and 55 min

Question 2

What is the most impressive feature in the Jupiter atmosphere and how long has it been there?

Answer 2

The great red spot, Over 3 Centuries

Question 3

The white zones of Jupiter’s atmosphere are composed primarily of?

Answer 3

hydrogen, helium, water, and ammonia.

Question 4

The rotation of Jupiter’s atmosphere are composed primarily of?

Answer 4

hydrogen and helium

Question 5

The first spacecraft to drop a weather probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere was?

Answer 5

Galileo ; Demise of Galileo.

Question 6

What is the name used to describe the dark bands encircling Jupiter?

Answer 6

Belts

Question 7

In size, from largest to smallest, the correct order for the Galilean moons is:

Answer 7

Galilean, Satelites, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, Europa

Question 8

Of the galilean moons, the one with striking grooved terrain and icy tectonic features as well as older craters is:

Answer 8

Ganymede

Question 9

What spacecraft was intentionally destroyed in 2003 so that it could not hit Europa

Answer 9

Galileo

Question 10

The last space craft to visit Jupiter and its moons was?

Answer 10

Cassini

Question 11

What is jupiter’s ring made out of?

Answer 11

Reflective Dust

Question 12

Io’s “pizza pie” colors come from eruptions of _____ and it’s compounds.

Answer 12

Sulfur

Question 13

The moon of jupiter most likely to habor marine life, according to Galileo is?

Answer 13

Europa

Question 14

Flybys of Europa and Ganymede found weak, variable magnetic fields, according to data sent back by

Answer 14

Galileo

Question 15

What would happen to Jupiter for it to become a star?

Answer 15

Gain 80 times more mass

Question 16

What is the source of Jupiter’s excess energy?

Answer 16

Slow escape gravity, Energy release from planet formation.

Question 17

What is thought to lie at the center of Jupiter?

Answer 17

Rocky Core

Question 18

The magnetosphere of Jupiter generates and the planet(s) that it extends past?

Answer 18

Voyagers 1 and 2

Question 19

How many moons have been found orbiting the planet Jupiter?

Answer 19

63

Question 20

The elements that compose the atmosphere are?

Answer 20

H, He, Methane, Ammonia, other energetic elements.

Question 21

The color in the atmosphere of Jupiter is due to?

Answer 21

Different Chemicals reflected from the sun’s light

Question 22

Jupiter is largest and brightest as seen from Earth at?

Answer 22

Opposition

Question 23

The apparent “surface” of Jupiter is actually the tops of?

Answer 23

Clouds

Question 24

Jupiter does not appear to rotate as a solid body: the observed shows rotation that we are actually viewing a gaseous object in?

Answer 24

Differential Rotation

Question 25

Jupier’s moon that is even bigger than Mercury, the largest satellite in the solar system is:

Answer 25

Ganymede

Question 26

The source of Io's internal energy which drives its volcanism is the gravitational tug-of-war between it,

Answer 26

Jupiter, and: Europa

Question 27

The largest impact feature on Callisto is _______ , similar to Mare Orientale on our Moon and Caloris on Mercury.

Answer 27

Valhalla

Question 28

How large is Jupiter's magnetosphere?

Answer 28

It is a million times the volume of the Earth's, extending beyond the orbit of Saturn.

Question 29

What do our magnetic field and Jupiter's share?

Answer 29

we are the only ones who have a bow shot, jupiters is a million times stronger than ours.

Question 30

The surface of which Galilean moon most resembles the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean?

Answer 30

Europa

Question 31

Jupiter’s upward moving warm gases create?

Answer 31

Europa 33 Zones

Question 32

The bright zones of Jupiter atmosphere are made of (bright light).

Answer 32

Lightning

Question 33

The spacecraft that have observed Jupiter are?

Answer 33

Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini, Galileo

Question 34

Besides THE RED SPOT what else can be seen in the atmosphere of Jupiter?

Answer 34

Short lived storms and lightning

Question 35

Which of Jupiter’s Galilean moons is located in the ring of Jupiter?

Answer 35

Io, Ganymede, Europa, Galileo

Question 36

How much does the mass of Jupiter compare with that of the other planets?

Answer 36

2x as much as all the other planets combined