Gas giants – Jupiter

This activity is part of teaching unit 4, Gas Giants. You can find the introduction and teaching guide here.

Jupiter is the largest and fastest rotating planet in the Solar System. Because of its fast rotation, the planet is not completely spherical, but is slightly flattened at the poles. With this activity you will be able to measure the flattening of Jupiter and detect its Great Red Spot, using real images of the planet obtained with the Liverpool Telescope.

• Download the GUIDE of the activity.
• Download the images of JUPITER you are going to work with.
• If you haven’t already done so, download the software (PeterSoft) to view and analyse the images.
  Remember you can also obtain your own images of the planets in “Go Observing” and make new measurements and investigations.