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Servicing Mission 3B: SM3B Discussion Board: General Discussion: Jupiter's Core

Gleason

||||| Wednesday, February 27, 2002 - 05:26 pm

We are studying the planets and we watched a movie about our galaxy. It said that the core of Jupiter of is twice the size of earths. How do they find this info out?

Ellen Odoi

||||| Friday, March 01, 2002 - 08:30 am

so,do you really have to wear like big clothes to surviv in places like jupiter.because i was studying jupiter and it states that it contains
90%hydrogen,and the 10%huluem.is this really true?
my friend want me to ask you that do you eat frozen icecream that you break off.

davon

||||| Friday, March 01, 2002 - 08:31 am

what about the icecream,and do you do matrix in space?

ellen,and davon

||||| Friday, March 01, 2002 - 08:38 am

have you guys found any new after pluto,because our teacher said that you want to find out if there are any other planets after jupiter?my friend want to intrestly know about icecream,if you break it of because of it is cold do you break it of?are there any life onany other planets?

paul_g

||||| Friday, March 01, 2002 - 09:04 am

About Jupiter's Core: Gleason, we can find out lots of stuff about planets and stars even though we can't go there and "touch" them. In Jupiter's case, we have sent spacecraft to orbit and to fly by it, the biggest planet of them all. The spacecraft can send radio waves towards the planet and "listen" for their echos. Radio waves can penetrate the various layers of gas in Jupiter's outer layers, and return a "picture" of what's inside, just like an X-ray. Some of these things we can do from the Earth, too. By the way, Jupiter has no hard surface, like the Earth, it just gets denser and denser towards the middle. For farther objects that we can't yet reach with spacecraft, like distant stars and galaxies, we can analyse their light to determine what they're made from. There are PLENTY of books on planets and stars in the library. Check 'em out! (literally!) Have fun.