Jupiter

From World Wind Wiki

The largest planet in the Solar system Jupiter is now viewable from within World Wind (using version 1.3.4 or above), also available are the Galilean moons Callisto, Europa, Ganymede and Io.

1 Introduction to Jupiter
2 Jupiter Tutorial
3 Viewing Jupiter
4 Jupiter Layers
- 4.1 Jupiter
- 4.2 Jupiter's Moons
5 Callisto
6 Europa
7 Ganymede
8 Io
9 Jupiter Videos
10 Related Links
11 Credits

[edit] Introduction to Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, named after the father of the Roman gods and godesses, Jupiter is two and a half times more massive than the combined mass of the other planets in our Solar system.

Earth and Jupiter size comparison

For a much more detailed description see the wikipedia Jupiter page, there are also two educational pages at NASA Learning technologies planet Jupiter and What's The Difference, and a NASA fact sheet about Venus.

[edit] Jupiter Tutorial

A flash tutorial that explains how to view Jupiter in World Wind can be found at the World Wind Tours Homepage.

[edit] Viewing Jupiter

You can view Jupiter by selecting Start->Programs->NASA->World Wind Jupiter1.3, or after launching World Wind by switching to Jupiter from the File menu.