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1. What position is Jupiter from the sun?
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
2. How many Earths could fit inside Jupiter?
6
About 80
About 121
About 1300
3. What massive storm has been raging on Jupiter for at least 190 years?
Records of human observation date back to 1831. It might be much older.
Golden Gate
Amber Cyclone
Blue Wall
Red Spot
4. Which moon of Jupiter is the largest moon in the solar system?
Europa
Callisto
Ganymede
Io
5. Who first observed Jupiter’s moons?
Anders Carlinneaus
Galileo
Copernicus
The largest have been known since prehistory
6. Which of these statements about Jupiter is NOT true?
Jupiter gets more heat from its core than from the sun
Jupiter has more moons than any other planet in the Solar System
Jupiter has rings
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system
7. To what real-life Jovian rainfall might the hit song “Drops of Jupiter” be referring?
Evidence suggests that Jupiter might have both helium and diamond rain.
Hydrochloric acid
Uranium
Iron oxide
Diamond
8. Which of these is Jupiter?
9. Jupiter is a gas giant, composed primarily of what gasses?
Hydrogen and helium
Nitrogen and carbon dioxide
Argon and fluorine
Boron and mercury
10. How long is one of Jupiter’s days (in Earth time)?
A sunrise to sunrise day on Mercury takes 176 Earth days, which is about two Mercury years. It orbits the sun quickly, so while its rotation is 59 days, its day lasts much longer.
Fun! I knew Jupiter and Saturn both have a lot of moons, took a guess. Other than 93% answered correctly on the pictures, I thought that two look awfully similar, Jupiter and Venus. NASA has a nice set of pictures that are pretty distinct.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/
Do you know how quizzes are tagged? Does JP have a taxonomy or ontology of categories?
nice addition, 7/10
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/
Do you know how quizzes are tagged? Does JP have a taxonomy or ontology of categories?