Jupiter Lesson 10 of the space course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Jupiter is the king of the planets: about 11 Earths would fit across it, and it is more than twice as heavy as all the other planets put together. 1 It is a gas giant made mostly of hydrogen and helium, like the Sun, with no ground to stand on: a spaceship sinking into it would only meet thicker and hotter gas, and deep down hydrogen squeezed into liquid metal. 2 Jupiter spins in under 10 hours, faster than any planet, and that fast spin and its winds stretch its clouds into the light and dark stripes you see in pictures. 3 Its Great Red Spot is a storm wider than the Earth that has raged for at least 190 years, longer than anyone's great-great-grandparents have lived. 4 Jupiter's huge gravity acts like a pinball flipper for comets and asteroids, sometimes flinging them away from the inner planets and sometimes towards them. 5 Jupiter is the largest planet, about 11 times wider than the Earth and more than twice as massive as all the other planets put together. 6 Jupiter is a gas giant made mostly of hydrogen and helium, like the Sun, and has no solid surface to stand on. 7 Deep inside Jupiter, hydrogen is squeezed so hard that it becomes a liquid metal that conducts electricity. 8 Jupiter spins faster than any other planet, once in just under 10 hours. 9 Jupiter's stripes are bands of clouds, light zones and darker belts, made of ammonia and other chemicals, stretched out by fast winds. 10 The Great Red Spot is a giant storm on Jupiter that has lasted at least 190 years and is wider than the Earth, though it has been slowly shrinking. 11 Jupiter is about five times further from the Sun than the Earth and takes about 12 Earth years to orbit once. 12 Jupiter's gravity flings many comets and asteroids around, sometimes away from the inner planets and sometimes towards them. 13 In 1994 pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, leaving dark scars bigger than the Earth. 14 Jupiter has faint, thin rings made of dust, discovered by Voyager 1 in 1979. 15 Jupiter is surrounded by belts of deadly radiation, the strongest of any planet, which can damage spacecraft electronics. 16 Jupiter has the most powerful auroras in the Solar System, glowing at its poles in ultraviolet light. 17 Jupiter is mostly hydrogen like the Sun, but it is far too small to start fusion, so it is not a failed star in any real sense; it would need about 80 times more mass. ← previous Asteroids and the asteroid beltnext → Jupiter's moons↑ back to Space This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/