Here you can read online Robin Kerrod - Jupiter full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2000, publisher: Lerner Publications, genre: Children. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Jupiter" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
Robin Kerrod: author's other books
Who wrote Jupiter? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Jupiter — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Jupiter" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Lerner Publications Company. A Division of Lerner Publishing Group 241 First Avenue North, Minneapolis MN 55401
Website address: www.lernerbooks.com
2000 by Graham Beehag Books
All U.S. rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the prior written permission of Lerner Publications Company, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kerrod, Robin Jupiter / Robin Kerrod. p. cm. Includes index. Summary: An introduction to the planet Jupiter, with information about its powerful gravity, stormy atmosphere, and various moons. ISBN 0822539071 (lib. bdg.) 1. Jupiter (Planet)Juvenile literature. [1. Jupiter (Planet)] I. Title. II. Series: Kerrod, Robin. Planet library. QB661.K47 2000 99.040069 523.45dc21
Printed in Singapore by Tat Wei Printing Packaging Pte Ltd Bound in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6OS05 04 03 02 01 00
Page 3
Contents
Introducing Jupiter
5
How Jupiter Formed
6
Jupiter Basics
8
Stormy Atmosphere
11
Jupiter's Magnetism
14
Powerful Gravity
16
Jupiter's Moons
20
Missions to Jupiter
26
Glossary
31
Index
32
Page 4
Jupiter is a colorful planet, marked by bands of fast-moving clouds. Its most prominent feature is a huge oval region called the Great Red Spot, seen here at the bottom left. On the right side is Io, the nearest of Jupiter's four large moons.
Page 5
Introducing Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets in the solar systemthe family of bodies that circle in space around the Sun. Jupiter is so big that all of the other planets could fit inside it easily. It has more than 300 times the mass, or matter, of our own planet, Earth.
Jupiter is quite a different kind of planet from Earth. Earth is one of the four rocky planets of the inner solar systemMercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Jupiter is one of the gas giants of the outer solar systemJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The ninth planet, Pluto, is a small ball of rock and ice.
Jupiter is one of the brightest objects on our night sky, after the Moon and the planet Venus. Like all other planets, Jupiter shines because it reflects light from the Sun. In powerful telescopes, we see that Jupiter is a colorful planet, with light and dark bands and white and colorful spots. These are features of Jupiter's atmospherethe thick layer of gases that covers the planet.
Jupiter is the center of its own kind of "solar system". At least 16 moons circle around Jupiter, in much the same way the planets circle around the Sun. Jupiter keeps its large family of moons in place with its enormous gravity. Gravity is the attraction, or pull, that a heavenly body has on objects on or near it. Jupiter's moons have an amazing variety of features.
An artist's impression of the Great Red Spot, seen from Amalthea, a tiny moon that orbits much closer to Jupiter than Io.
Page 6
How Jupiter Formed
Jupiter was born about 4.6 billion years ago, at the same time Earth and the other planets formed. It became a different kind of planet from Earth because it formed so much farther away from the Sun.
The solar system formed out of a huge cloud of dust and gas, mainly hydrogen and helium. Over time, the cloud shrank into a huge spinning ball, with a disk of gas and dust circling around it.
The ball of gas at the center gradually became smaller as it collapsed under the pull of gravity between its particles. As the ball collapsed, it heated up. It eventually started to glow, and in time it began to shine as a star, the Sun.
Look at similar books to Jupiter. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Discussion, reviews of the book Jupiter and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.
