--- title: Jupiter — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Jupiter», a lesson of the space course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / Jupiter # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/10-jupiter/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/6/) — Jupiter is a gas giant made mostly of hydrogen and helium, like the Sun, and has no solid surface to stand on. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/7/) — Deep inside Jupiter, hydrogen is squeezed so hard that it becomes a liquid metal that conducts electricity. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/8/) — Jupiter spins faster than any other planet, once in just under 10 hours. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/11/) — Jupiter is about five times further from the Sun than the Earth and takes about 12 Earth years to orbit once. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/12/) — Jupiter's gravity flings many comets and asteroids around, sometimes away from the inner planets and sometimes towards them. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/13/) — In 1994 pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, leaving dark scars bigger than the Earth. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/14/) — Jupiter has faint, thin rings made of dust, discovered by Voyager 1 in 1979. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/15/) — Jupiter is surrounded by belts of deadly radiation, the strongest of any planet, which can damage spacecraft electronics. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/16/) — Jupiter has the most powerful auroras in the Solar System, glowing at its poles in ultraviolet light. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/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 belt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/) - next →: [Jupiter's moons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/11-jupiters-moons/) - ↑ back to [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/)