Jupiter

by Elaine Landau

Book Overview

This book describes the characteristics of the planet Jupiter and its moons, as revealed by photographs sent back by unmanned spacecraft. Space exploration is no longer new, but new discoveries are being made every day. This series explores those discoveries, revealing the latest scientific observations about our solar system, exploding myths using newfound data, chronicling the journeys of space pioneers, and detailing the methods scientists and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531203875
• ISBN13: 9780531203873
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

This book about the stormy planet is colorful, fun and easy to read!

There are eight planets in our solar system and Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. It is a beautiful planet to look at and is "covered with orange, brown, and white stripes." These stripes are actually "frozen clouds" and their colors come from different kinds of gas and ice. Unlike space travel to the dwarf planet Pluto, it would take you about a year to get there. The planet is uninhabitable and even getting through the gaseous atmosphere would be a problem. Jupiter is one of the gas giants in the solar system, a planet made up of gas and liquid so even landing on the surface would be out of the question. Jupiter is a stormy planet and if you look closely at one of the pictures in this book the giant storm occurring makes a tornado look like a picnic One storm is called the "Great Red Spot." This storm is "more than 300 years old" and whirls around to the tune of 250 miles per hour. A few other interesting facts you'll read about in this book are that it is the largest planet, it is a whopping 88,846 miles in diameter, it is approximately 484 million miles for the sun, it has a ring system with 63 moons, a day is 9 hours and 55 minutes (Earth time) and a year is approximately 12 Earth years. This is a "True Book." There are two sentences in the front of the book and only one of them is true. Let's see how quickly you can find the correct one This book about the stormy planet is colorful, fun and easy to read. Any youngster who is a space fanatic will be quickly drawn into this series of "True Books." There are numerous enhanced photographs in this book, illustrations, informative scattered facts, sidebars, a two page illustrated spread of Jupiter's solar system, a page with statistics, important words, an index and additional recommended books and web sites. Did you know that in 2010 the Jupiter Polar Orbiter (Juno) may head to Jupiter? We may learn even more than we do now. Exciting, isn't it?

This book about the stormy planet is colorful, fun and easy to read!

There are eight planets in our solar system and Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. It is a beautiful planet to look at and is "covered with orange, brown, and white stripes." These stripes are actually "frozen clouds" and their colors come from different kinds of gas and ice. Unlike space travel to the dwarf planet Pluto, it would take you about a year to get there. The planet is uninhabitable and even getting through the gaseous atmosphere would be a problem. Jupiter is one of the gas giants in the solar system, a planet made up of gas and liquid so even landing on the surface would be out of the question. Jupiter is a stormy planet and if you look closely at one of the pictures in this book the giant storm occurring makes a tornado look like a picnic! One storm is called the "Great Red Spot." This storm is "more than 300 years old" and whirls around to the tune of 250 miles per hour. A few other interesting facts you'll read about in this book are that it is the largest planet, it is a whopping 88,846 miles in diameter, it is approximately 484 million miles for the sun, it has a ring system with 63 moons, a day is 9 hours and 55 minutes (Earth time) and a year is approximately 12 Earth years. This is a "True Book." There are two sentences in the front of the book and only one of them is true. Let's see how quickly you can find the correct one! This book about the stormy planet is colorful, fun and easy to read. Any youngster who is a space fanatic will be quickly drawn into this series of "True Books." There are numerous enhanced photographs in this book, illustrations, informative scattered facts, sidebars, a two page illustrated spread of Jupiter's solar system, a page with statistics, important words, an index and additional recommended books and web sites. Did you know that in 2010 the Jupiter Polar Orbiter (Juno) may head to Jupiter? We may learn even more than we do now. Exciting, isn't it?