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Human Understanding of Jupiter

Jack Kelly

1800s

1600s

1990s

2000s

1610

On January 7 1610 an astronomer named Galileo Galilel used a telescope to look at a planet now called Jupiter and found stars surrounding the planet. The next few days he recorded the movements of the stars. He realized that those stars are actually individual moons that moved around with Jupiter. The Galileo debunked a theory that Earth was in the middle of the Solar System which makes the sun in the middle of the Solar System.

1679

1676

On Augest 22, 1676 one of Jupiter's moons called LO led an astronomer Ole Romer to measure the speed of light. Ole observed Lo and it's orbit period was 1.769 Earth days. Romer kept studying and and recording the data of how close the earth is too Jupiter and how far Earth and Jupiter is orbiting the sun for about a year and found something. Romer discovered a 17 minute delay when the Lo went into an eclipse. It made it that Earth was farther then Jupiter. So Ole made a theory that that light moved at a fixed speed.

1831

Jupiter is most famous for it's red spot. So on 1831 an astronomer named Samuel Heinrich Schwabe was the first one to see the red spot. The size of the spot has grown since it's discovery. The spot takes 6-7 days to rotate around the whole planet.

Late 19th century

In the late 19th century the size of the red spot on Jupiter also called the storm was shrinking at a rate about 900 km (580 miles) per year. Logically the red spot will be gone. But no one really knows for sure.

late 19th century

1955

In 1955 two astronomers named Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin made a radio to record celestial bodies that produces radio waves around Washington D.C. After getting a few weeks of data Bernard and Kenneth found a strange signal on their radio. They thought it was an interference but they noticed it was actually Jupiter that was transmitting radio signals. The discovery that Jupiter was the thing that was transmitting radio signals allowed the two to use there data and find out how long does it take Jupiter to resolve around its axes. The two of them figured it out and it takes Jupiter 10 hours.

1977

On March 5 1977 they figured out that Jupiter had rings around the planet like Saturn. How did they figure it out? Well 2 spacecrafts called the Voyager 1 and the Voyager 2 took high quality photographs of the surface of Jupiter. But the biggest thing of the photographs were the rings you can see around Jupiter. Two of Jupiter's moons called Adrastea and Metis are the sources of the main ring. The other two moons Amalthea and Thebe are the sources of the outer part of the rings called gossamer rings. Another photograph taken by the Voayger 1 and 2 has an active volcano on the moon called Lo.

1995

On December 7 1995 the Galileo an Orbiter was the first spacecraft to study Jupiters atmosphere. It got a lot more information then the last two spacecrafts Voyage 1 and Voyage 2. Galileo found that one that the moon Lo that had the Volcano was more active then the Volcano's on earth. Galileo also discovered that there was salt water on the other 3 moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

2016

On July 4, 2016 the space probe Juno made contact with Jupiter. Juno's goal was to find and undertsand the orgins of Jupiter. Juno launched Augest 15 2011 and got to Jupiter at July 4th 2016. The estimated date for it's arrival back to earth is July 2021 and right now it is orbiting Jupiter and trying to find new things.

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