JUPITER

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==The planet Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter is the 5th planet from the sun. Jupiter has a radius of almost 70,000 km, compared to Earth's 6,400km radius. Jupiter is only 2nd to that of the Sun in mass, size etc, the sun's radius is 696,000km. Jupiter is so huge that our planet Earth can fit in Jupiter about 318 times, the size of Jupiter is really hard to understand, but try to think of it this way - all the planets in our solar system (including Pluto) put together aren't even half the size of Jupiter, infact all the planets put together and Jupiter is still 2 and a half times as big as all of them.== ==It takes Jupiter 4,333 days just to orbit the sun one full time! compared to Earth's 365/366 days it takes to orbit the sun once. Jupiter is regarded as the gas giant, as it is composed only of gas - no ice nothing on it, just a whole heap of gas. The atmosphere of Jupiter is consituted of 90% hydrogen gas, and 10% helium gas. The core of Jupiter though is made up of metallic liquid hydrogen and once again hydrogen gas.==

==Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, but it also is the planet with the most moons in our solar system, it has been recorded that their are 63 discovered moons circling Jupiter, under clear conditions some of the moons are visable.== ==Even though scientists know that it is impossible for Jupiter to contain life, because there is no water - only gas, but also because human's won't be able to even stand up on Jupiter because of the gravity. The gravity on Jupiter is about 6.3 times more than that of Earth, so if humans step foot on such a big planet, and get threw the 56 day journey in the atmosphere threw all the gases, the gravity won't allow our species to walk or do anything, the intense gravitational pull will break bones and as homosapian's we won't be able to handle it.==

==But what interests scientists so much about life around Jupiter is not actually Jupiter, in recent years scientists have come to think that one of Jupiter's moons - the one closest to Mars can probably be able to have life - even though it would take 3 years to reach this moon it is believed that water is on it, scientists think that this moon used to be a planet - it's probably a bit bigger than Earth, and this planet used to occupy the space between Mars and Jupiter but then a huge asteroid storm threw this planet too close to Jupiter, and now the gravity of Jupiter has taken over this planet. But this planet is thought to be ideal, because it is now a moon it circles around Jupiter - not the sun, this means that Mars which is very close to it goes in an opposite direction to what this moon does, hence - this means that the Sun has direct impact on this moon for most of the year.==

Scientists are so confident about this moon that their planning to send a probe in 2015, after they do a scheduled moon mission - note the last moon mission was in about 1980 or so.
==Therefore, Group 1's report to the SETI is that we have throughly investigated all we needed to about Jupiter, but we are sorry to inform the SETI, in reply to their question - no, Jupiter is not in general a suitable place to host life, let alone human life. There is no water on Jupiter, and the intense gravity will surely not allow humans to live on Jupiter. So SETI our offical report is that no, Jupiter is not a sutiable location for human life by an possible scientifc means known to us yet. But on the other hand Jupiter's moon might be a possible location to colanize human life but only after a throughly done investigation has be underdone, until then Jupiter or any of it's moons is not a suitable location to host human life.==

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