jupiter.......?

Question

im doing a project involving drawing an alien for pluto and jupiter. i need info on both planets like gravity-length of year/day-distance away from sun-planet surface-average temperature-composition of atmosphere-and i need to draw a pic of the alien, give it a name and desribe how it would be able to survive on that planet------plz help

Answer 1

thats a lot to ask for. I'll help, but it sounds like you want us to do all the work and you'll draw the picture. thats not fair and not our project.

you'll need to find the rest on wiki yourself.

earth's gravity is = to 1 g


Jupiter
2.358 g
orbit 11.862 years
day cycle 398.88 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

Pluto
0.059 g
orbit 248.09 years
day cycle 366.73 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

Answer 2

Jupiter and Pluto are probably incapable of supporting any form of life we can understand. Even if either one does harbor life that thrives in the incredibly harsh environments present at Jupiter and Pluto, it would be totally alien. We see life here that can live in an active nuclear reactor, thrives in water hot and toxic enough to kill anything else instantly and life that needs neither sunlight nor to eat other lifeforms to get sustenance. I would start by looking up what conditions are known to exist at both places and model your alien on them. Jupiter has no solid surface and a very strong gravitational field. Pluto is frozen solid at -400degrees Fahrenheit and has essentially no atmosphere and very little sunlight. In a way, you're designing a machine that can function and survive on Jupiter and Pluto, life functions in many ways like a natural machine, with individual parts and systems that make up a whole organism. Think of it that way then design an alien that would not only live, but thrive at either world.

Answer 3

For Jupiter, use the fact that there is no real surface. The alien could be an airborne being, whose body is just the right density to float at a specific altitude where it finds what it needs to live. You could make it so that it gets energy from the components of Jupiter's atmosphere at various levels. Then it must be able to change its density (by filling sacs with lighter or denser gases, as needed, or by making itself bigger or smaller without changing its mass). I'd call it Zeo (because the Greeks called the planet Zeus).

For Pluto, the planet is very cold and covered with ice. You'll need an alien that can get around on an icy surface, with very little atmosphere. One way is to have him "breathe" by eating chunks of frozen oxygen compounds. Hadean? (from the Greek Hades)

Answer 4

>need info on both planets like gravity-length of year/day-distance away from sun-planet surface-average temperature-composition of atmosphere-

Okay, Wikipedia should give me all the results I need to cover these items...

JUPITER
Gravity: 24.79m/s^2 (2.358 Gs)
Length of year: 11.86 Earth years
Length of day: 9 hours, 55 minutes and 30 seconds
Distance from Sun: 779 million kilometers (5.2 AU)
Surface temperature: 165 kelvin (-108 celsius)
Atmosphere composition: 89% hydrogen, 10% helium, 0.3% methane, 0.026% ammonia, 0.003% hydorgen deuteride, 0.0006% ethane, 0.0004% water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

PLUTO
Gravity: 0.58m/s^2 (0.059 Gs)
Length of year: 248.09 Earth years
Length of day: 6 Earth days, 9 hours, 17 minutes and 36 seconds
Distance from Sun: 5.9 billion kilometers (39.48 AU)
Surface temperature: 44 kelvin (-229 celsius)
Atmosphere composition: Tiny amounts of nitrogen and methane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

Here's some information about the idea of life on Jupiter:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/J/Jupiterlife.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter#Possibility_of_life
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Life/J_environment.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part6/section-6.html
And an artist's impression of life on a gas giant planet (like Jupiter):
http://www.visionaryshirts.com/thumbs/astro-art/ALIEN%20LIFE%20ON%20A%20GAS%20GIANT.jpg

Here's some information about the idea of life on Pluto:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Is-There-Life-on-Pluto?&id=91382
http://digg.com/space/Water_on_Pluto_sparks_hopes_of_marine_life
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_would_the_amount_of_gravity_on_Pluto_affect_life_there
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/363166
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071008081207AAJEtuL

Some things to take note of:

Jupiter, as a gas giant, has no solid surface. Its atmosphere starts out thin at the top, and gets gradually thicker as it goes down. There is no transition from gas to liquid; the pressure simply increases to the point where the atmosphere is better described as a liquid than as a gas. The outer layers of Jupiter's atmosphere are rather cold, but the temperature increases steadily as you look farther inwards; in the interior, the temperature is thousands of degrees celsius, even hotter than the center of the Earth. Thus, there is some area of the atmosphere where the temperatures are between the freezing and boiling points of water. If water does exist there, there could be life, however it is likely that there is very, very little water in that layer (given that there is rather little overall, and that that layer is probably deep enough that it will be dominated by other chemicals). A better bet might be to base your life forms on ammonia or methane (both of which would place the habitable layer higher than the water layer). Any life forms would have no solid surface to grow on, and thus would have to float in the atmosphere somehow. One idea is that they could be built like blimps, with large sacs of skin containing some light gas (such as hydrogen) which keeps them floating. Alternatively, the animals at least could also be like birds, and fly by gliding on their wings. Most interpretations of gas giant life forms have taken the 'gas bag' approach.

Pluto, unlike Jupiter, does have a solid surface. However, its surface is very, very cold, so cold that most common chemicals would be frozen solid. It also has extremely low gravity, only a little more than one twentieth of that on Earth. The most realistic area of Pluto for life to exist would be deep underground, where a combination of pressure, residual heat from Pluto's formation and tidal effects could bring the temperature up to more manageable levels. While life forms using water are a bit of a stretch even then, you might get away with having a life form that used ammonia as a suspension medium (ammonia, or NH3, is liquid at lower temperatures than water. Methane is, again, another possible suspension medium, although it is less realistic than ammonia for these purposes.

Here are the liquid ranges of possible suspension mediums you could use, in celsius:
Water: 0 to 100
Ammonia: -77.73 to -33.34
Methane: -182.5 to -161.6

That should be enough scientific information to get you started. From now on, you'll need to exercise your own creativity, within reasonable scientific bounds of course. :)

Answer 5

The links will provide everything in detail of the both of them,,

JUPITER

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Jupiter


PLUTO

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Pluto

Answer 6

well a simple search in google or wikipedia could tell you about jupiter and pluto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto but names and what the alien would look like i have no idea

Answer 7

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Here are some facts and other places you can find information. When you are ready, click back to return to the Student Center or click below to explore again.

Jupiter and moonsJupiter takes about 12 years to orbit the sun and rotates in about 10 hours. This short Jupiter "day" is amazing since the planet is roughly 11 Earth diameters wide.

Unlike the rocky planets, Jupiter is a ball of dense hydrogen, helium, water, nitrogen and other gases over a tiny rocky core. Powerful winds dominate the atmosphere with criss-crossing jet streams, lightning and huge hurricane-like storms like the Great Red Spot. This storm has been raging for over 300 years and is about 2 Earth diameters wide. The Great Red Spot can be seen on Jupiter along with four moons: Io (smallest), Europa, Callisto and Ganymede in this NASA image.

The planet had 39 known moons at the time of this image and a slight ring of smoke-sized particles and dust. The planet contains 71% of the planetary matter in the solar system and so its huge gravity pulls every object toward it. In fact, most of its moons were captured rather than forming with Jupiter. Scientists watched in awe as comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and smashed into Jupiter making explosions the size of the Earth.

New Moons for Jupiter
Scientists keep finding more moons orbiting Jupiter. In May of 2002 Scott S. Sheppard and David C. Jewitt of the University of Hawaii announced the discovery of 11 new moons around the planet. As of March, 2003, Jupiter had 52 confirmed satellites. These newest moons are all no more than 2 to 4 kilometers across (if their surfaces are very dark), they all have retrograde (backward) orbits, and take somewhere between 557 and 773 days to orbit. These latest moonlets were announced by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on Circular number 8089. In April, 2003, 8 more moons were confirmed for a total of 60 moons with the possibility of more as the search continues.

The box below shows how the four main satellites or moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) of Jupiter would look in realtime (right now). If you have binoculars or a telescope you can see the moons as tiny points of light. If you look the next night you can see for youself that they move. For any outside links you click on in the box, you will need to use your Back Button to return to Kid's Cosmos.

The author, Gary Nugent, describes how to use the applet:

"The distances of the satellites from Jupiter are in proportion to that of the real Jovian system.

The left-to-right order of the satellites are given by the satellite names displayed in the lower left box. Satellite names in red indicate that the satellite is being occulted (behind) by Jupiter. Satellite names in yellow represent transiting satellites.

When you click on the image of Jupiter or any of the satellite images you will be taken to the appropriate page at The Nine Planets site. Clicking on the ? displays a brief description of the applet and clicking on the globe (lower right) brings you to my home page."

Click for larger view of Jupiter's ringsJupiter's Rings
Jupiter's main ring system is formed by dust kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the giant planet's four small inner moons Almathea, Thebe, Adrastea and Metis. The ring system begins about 92,000 kilometers (55,000 miles) from Jupiter's center and extends to about 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) from the planet. NASA's Voyager 2 detected an uneven dust ring around Jupiter in 1979. One Voyager image seemed to indicate a third, faint outer ring. The Galileo spacecraft found a flattened main ring and an inner, cloud-like ring, called the halo, both composed of small, dark particles, and a third ring known as the Gossamer Ring. The third ring is actually two very thin rings made up of debris from Amalthea and Thebe. Unlike Saturn's rings, there are no signs of ice in Jupiter's rings. Click image or here for larger view of this NASA/JPL diagram.

Recently, scientists have found evidence for a new ring of dust in a backward orbit around Jupiter, based on computer simulations and data collected by a dust detector aboard the Galileo spacecraft. A faint, doughnut-shaped ring of interplanetary and interstellar dust some 1,126,000 kilometers in diameter (about 700,000 miles) appears to be orbiting the giant planet. The reason for the backward orbit of the tiny particles is not known.

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Quick Facts about Jupiter

Topic


Data

Diameter


142,984 km

Density


1.33 g/cm3

Mass


1.900 x 1027 kg

Volume