History Channel
Season. 1 Episode. 4
http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_%28TV_series%29
YOUTUBE
EXCERPTS:
JUPITER - THE GIANT PLANET
"Jupiter is 84% hydrogen and almost 14% helium,
(a failed star!)
"... and you could take a thousand Earths and stuff them inside Jupiter comfortably.
"about 70% of the mass in all the planets (in solar system) is in Jupiter.
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LARGEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
A DAY ON JUPITER IS 9.9 HOURS
ORBITS THE SUN IN 11.86 YEARS
150 LBS ON EARTH = 350 LBS ON JUPITER
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"its electromagnetic radiation is intense.
It could kill a traverler to the planet in an instant."
"some believe Jupiter may have been a failed star.
like the sun, it had the right ingredients, H and He,
But not enough mass to create the internal pressure and temperature
necessary to have nuclear fusion.
"Jupiter is like a big brother in the schoolyard,
protecting you from bullies that might wreak havoc on your existence.
"By cleaning some of the debris up,
kicking some of it out, shooting some of it into the Sun,
where it would be lost forever,
Jupiter cleaned out a path that the other planets could exist in some sort of peace.
So dominant is this Frisbee phenomenon,
Earth may owe its very existence of Jupiter."
"... presence of jupiter may be one reason why we have life on Earth.
[July 1994, a comet hit the Juipter, if Jupiter wasn't there, it might happen that comet to hit Earth, and We'll no longer exist.]
Bibilically: Jupiter - a star of Behtlehem
Jupiter's Huge Giant Eye is 12000 miles wide, while whole Earth is 8000 miles wide.
"The fastest wind ever recorded here on Earth was 175 miles an hour."
Hurricane Wilma, 2005, Yucatan.
At Jupiter wind speed is 360 miles an hour.
"Earth has just one primary jet stream,
it moves eastward,
and another major flow that blows westward,
the trade winds.
Triple that power and you've got the jet streams of Jupiter."
"if i understood what's going on on Jupiter,
Earth would be just a piece of cake."
- NEIL deGRASSE TYSON
Jupiter has several dozen of moons (more than 60)
Jupiter is like mini solar system, an planet orbitted by many moons
"Four of Jupiter's prominent moons were discovered by Galileo."
Io: acive place, lot of volcanoes.
"Io is a wonder pockmark with over a hundred volcanoes.
some the size of California.
"Ganymede is the largest moon in our solary system.
five times the size of Earth's moon."
"Callisto is the most heavily cratered."
"Europa, the ice queen to Jupiter's king."
DepthX:(hydrobot)
"If everything went according to the plan we would launch around 2017.
It would be at Europa by 2018...
and y 2019 for certain we'd know whether there's life off Earth.
"DepthX robot or more accurately hydrobot,
is being designed to ultimately think, move and explore
without help from man."
JUPITER'S MAGNETOSPHERE
"The magnetosphere of Juptier is the biggest object in the solary system.
It's a lot bigger than the Sun."
Jupiter has a ring, may be debris of some destroyed moon.
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