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In the Spring Festival of 2019, the movie "The Wandering Earth" starring Wu Jing had a bumper harvest at the word-of-mouth box office, which also evoked people's memories of the plot in "The Wandering Earth" that was almost swallowed by Jupiter, and also stimulated people's fear of Jupiter.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system in terms of mass and volume, and because Jupiter has a huge mass, it also has a huge gravitational pull, which can cause fear in humans.
But even though Jupiter had a violent comet collision that almost turned Jupiter into two stars, it was eventually attracted by Jupiter's gravity and became one of Jupiter's moons.
For this reason, Jupiter is also known as the "guardian" of the solar system.
1. Huge Jupiter.
Jupiter's mass is about 318 times that of Earth, and Jupiter's volume is also the largest in the solar system, 1300 times the volume of Earth, so it can be said that in the solar system, Jupiter has the largest volume and mass.
Jupiter also has the largest number of moons in the solar system, with 79 moons confirmed, and new moons are being discovered in Jupiter's atmosphere.
The four largest of these moons are called Galileo moons, which are Galileo, Callisto, Europa, and Io, and Europa, which is about a quarter the size of the Earth and one of the "four moons" of Jupiter that Galileo once observed.
Since Jupiter has the largest number of moons in the entire solar system, it also has some influence on the asteroid belt in the solar system.
Under the action of Jupiter's gravity and the sun's gravity, the asteroids in the asteroid belt are affected by Jupiter, so the orbits of the asteroids in the asteroid belt will also be distorted to a certain extent, some of the asteroids escape from the solar system, and some of the asteroids are attracted by Jupiter and become the moons of Jupiter.
However, Jupiter also plays a protective role for the Earth to some extent.
Because if there is no Jupiter, then some asteroids in the solar system may fly to the earth and pose a certain threat to the earth.
However, as the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter also has a huge gravitational pull, so it is also the largest guardian of the solar system, and the huge gravitational pull also brings huge energy to Jupiter.
Under the gravitational pull of Jupiter, the comets in the solar system flying towards Jupiter will also be affected by the gravitational pull of Jupiter, directing the gravitational pull of these comets flying towards Jupiter itself, and most of the comets will be attracted to Jupiter and become one of Jupiter's moons.
However, there are also some comets that cannot escape Jupiter's gravitational range and are eventually swallowed by Jupiter.
Although Jupiter swallows many comets, because Jupiter is limited in size, Jupiter will not be able to swallow for long, and will eventually be attracted by Jupiter's gravity.
2. Jupiter's "wounds".
One of Jupiter's moons is the "Ceres", which takes its name from the Greek god Ceres.
In ancient Greek mythology, the god of grains was the patron goddess of barns and farmland, and the position of this moon of Jupiter in Greek mythology is Jupiter's position.
So how exactly did this "Ceres" come to be?
It all starts with the formation of Jupiter.
When the solar system was formed, there was enough material around the sun, and at the same time, the gravitational pull of the sun also had enough range, so the formed solar system was composed of planets around the sun, and there were no collisions and collisions in the solar system during evolution.
When the gravitational range of the sun gradually expanded, and the formed solar system became more and more stable, the planets in the solar system gradually formed.
Jupiter, on the other hand, formed the earliest and has the largest mass, so it also has the greatest gravitational pull in the solar system.
The newly formed asteroids and comets in the solar system are of course subject to the gravitational pull of the Sun, but because Jupiter's position in the solar system is close to the Sun, the gravitational pull of Jupiter also has a relatively large range.
In the early solar system, asteroids and comets were subject to the gravitational pull of the Sun and the gravitational pull of Jupiter after their formation, and there was a certain equilibrium between the Sun and Jupiter.
The asteroids and comets in the solar system will also be affected by the gravitational pull of Jupiter after being affected by the gravitational pull of the sun, so in the solar system, the eccentricity of some comets will become very large, which is also known as the "Halley's comet group".
And a huge comet in the solar system, "Ceres", once flew around the solar system like a dizzy crow, and was eventually attracted by Jupiter and became one of Jupiter's moons, and Jupiter's gravity also led the gravitational pull of this big comet to Jupiter itself.
In 1994, an American astronomer found that there was material in Jupiter's atmosphere that did not belong to Jupiter, and these materials were still growing rapidly, and finally determined that these materials were fragments of the comet "Ceres".
On July 16, 1994, the comet "Ceres" finally hit Jupiter, and because Jupiter's atmosphere is relatively thick, Jupiter's atmosphere also has a certain degree of obscuration of part of the earth's sunlight, and human astronomers can directly see that Jupiter's atmosphere produces bright sparks.
3. Where does the terror of Jupiter come from.
The reason why people have a sense of fear of Jupiter is actually fundamentally due to the instinct of human beings to seek advantage and avoid harm.
In the human brain, the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm has always been the most important survival instinct, so human beings will always have a fear of something that may threaten them, and Jupiter's fear is also due to this reason.
Jupiter's fear stems mainly from human fear of Jupiter's huge gravitational pull.
On the human earth, as long as there are objects, then they must be affected by the gravitational pull of the earth.
Therefore, human beings are also accustomed to calling this feeling of "gravitational action" "gravity" in their life on the earth, and the gravity of human beings on the moon is only 1/6 of that on the earth, so human beings on the moon will have a feeling of lightness.
Jupiter's gravitational pull is 22.9 times stronger than Earth's, so humans on Jupiter will have a very heavy feeling, and human gravity is 5 times that of Earth.
This also means that if humans were to travel to Jupiter, even a simple move on Jupiter would be much more strenuous than on Earth.
Jupiter's atmosphere is much thicker than Earth's, Jupiter's atmosphere is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium, but Jupiter's atmosphere also has a certain amount of oxygen, which also means that there will be some possibility of life on Jupiter.
Jupiter's atmosphere also has a certain amount of water vapor, so humans can breathe in the form of water vapor on Jupiter, but there will be some damage to the brain in humans.
At the same time, Jupiter's atmosphere also has a large amount of methane, so there are also some volcanic eruptions in Jupiter's atmosphere.
Jupiter's atmosphere is characterized by storms all year round, the largest of which lasted nearly 400 years, and the hurricanes and typhoons experienced by humans on Earth are not comparable to those of Jupiter.
At the same time, Jupiter's surface does not have solid ground, and Jupiter's atmosphere is very dense, so Jupiter's surface is also very blurred.
In the interior of Jupiter, Jupiter's temperature is very high, so Jupiter's part can be said to be like a mountain of flames, but human spacecraft can break through Jupiter's atmosphere and enter Jupiter's interior.
Jupiter's interior is very hot, but Jupiter's magnetic field is very strong, hundreds of times stronger than Earth's.
Jupiter's magnetic field is also one of the most powerful in the solar system, so under the action of Jupiter's magnetic field, part of the particles in Jupiter's atmosphere are attracted by Jupiter's magnetic field, and enter Jupiter's polar region along Jupiter's magnetic field lines, and are accelerated by Jupiter's magnetic field, and finally form Jupiter's "aurora".
4. Jupiter's protective role.
Although Jupiter may seem intimidating on the surface, its presence plays an important role in the evolution and formation of life on Earth.
Because after the formation of the earth, a large number of asteroids on the moon will be affected by the gravitational pull of the earth and fly towards the earth for impact.
The presence of Jupiter can attract these asteroids to its side, thus reducing the number of asteroid impacts on Earth and the potential threat to Earth.
At the same time, Jupiter may also provide a possible source of water resources on Earth.
At the beginning of the formation of the earth, due to the very high temperature on the earth, most of the water on the earth will evaporate, absorb into the atmosphere, and eventually after the formation of clouds, it will fall to the ground in the form of rain.
And in the earth's atmosphere, part of the water comes from the outside world.
Jupiter's atmosphere has a certain amount of water, and Jupiter's storms will also produce some water molecules, which are likely to be the source of water on Earth.
At the same time, Jupiter will also screen the orbits of asteroids and comets in the solar system to protect the planets in the solar system and reduce the potential threat to the planets.
When human beings explored the solar system, they also took advantage of Jupiter's gravity to carry out an unprecedented exploration.
In 1973, an American space probe called Voyager 1 was launched, and after two years of sailing, it finally arrived near Jupiter.
And in 1979, another American space probe called "Voyager 2" also came to the vicinity of Jupiter.
Both space probes underwent the gravitational acceleration of Jupiter and eventually flew into outer space for the ultimate exploration of the planets of the solar system.
Despite Jupiter's enormous gravitational pull, humans have also taken advantage of Jupiter's gravitational pull to make great strides in space exploration.
epilogue
The word "Jupiter" is the name given by humans in ancient times, on the one hand, Jupiter has always been a bright star in the night sky, and people have been investigating the secrets of Jupiter.
At the same time, Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, so the ancients linked the bright stars in the night sky with the largest planet in the solar system through observation, and believed that Jupiter was a star in the solar system.