Explore Jupiter
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The Giant planets do not have the same layered structure that the terrestrial planets do. Their ...
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The king of planets is aptly named because it not only has the most dymanic atmospheric motion, ...
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is a unique object in the solar system. It is the biggest object in ...
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The four Galilean satellites; Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, are among the most interesting ...
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Several interesting phenomena are found at the poles of Jupiter, the largest planet in our ...
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All of the relevant information about Jupiter collected on one page, including details about size, orbit ...
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The Roman god Jupiter is associated with the Greek god, Zeus. ...
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A table containing information about the spacecraft that have visited Jupiter ...
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Access wonderful captioned photos and illustrations that will inspire and excite you. ...
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These are links to other great web sites about Jupiter. But beware: you don't want to get ...
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you know that the Celtic Sun god,
Lugh,
threw a magic stone that killed Balor, the god of the underworld?
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eclipses are produced by the Earth casting its shadow on the Moon?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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Magnetic polarity reversalxMagnetic polarity reversal : A magnetic polarity reversal is a change of the earth's magnetic field to the opposite polarity. This has occurred at irregular intervals during geologic time.
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Research Highlights
A magnitude-8.1 earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people last year in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga was in fact a triple-whammy. The 8.1 "great earthquake" concealed and triggered two...
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