Jupiter scaled one in one billion

Model Overview & Print Notes

Summary As well as my other posts on gas giants, this is not a true relief of the surface of Jupiter, because it has not a solid surface, but it is instead a interpretation of the height of the clouds as proportional to the albedo (brightness). Contrary to my posts of Uranus and Neptune , in which I've used high contrasted images and mosaics of the planets, with Jupiter I used a global map in true color, that I high-passed to keep only the "turbulence" of the atmosphere, discarding the bright level of some bands. As well with the other gas planets, the clouds moves and the bands of atmosphere rotate at different spins, so the map is valid for the moment the photos were taken. It was modelled using MATLAB R2016a. The model is scaled one in one billion, or one in one thousand million in the long scale system. In this scale, the Earth is about 1cm in diameter. The ring system of Jupiter is far reduced when compared with that of Saturn , even with the one of the ice giants. Here it is simplified to the main ring only. The file's names explained: name_1_x_10_y.stl is 1 : x * 10 y . So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million. Jupiter Jupiter is the biggest and most massive planet in the Solar System. It is so massive that the barycenter between the Sun and Jupiter lays outside the star. It is also the faster in rotational period, taking less than 10 hours to do a jovian day. Jupiter is known for being a sort of "vacuum cleaner" of the Solar System, scattering small asteroids from their orbits into a high unstable one. This is true also for comets. Small interactions in the high eccentrical orbit of a comet could make their orbital parameters change drastically, slowing down to a smaller Jupiter-resonant orbit, or accelerating them to the point they escape from the Solar System. This is thought to be an important factor in the search of life conditions among exoplanets . A big Jupiter sized planet could help to clean the system of potentially hazardous asteroids for an Earth like planet of that system. The most noticeable feature of the jovian surface is the Great Red Spot, a storm of the size of the Earth on the southern hemisphere. It has four big satellites, the Galileans Moons: Io , Europa , Ganymede and Callisto . The biggest one, Ganymede, is bigger, but lighter, than the planet Mercury . The rest of the moons are far smaller (like Amalthea , Thebe and Himalia), and they have not the enough mass to be rounded. Type: Planet. Gas giant. Orbit: Sun. Orbital period: 11.862 yr. Rotational period: 9 h 55 min 30 s. Composition: Hydrogen, helium atmosphere; metalic hydrogen mantle, rocky core. Density: 1.326 g/cm 3 . Dimensions: 142984 km × 133708 km Model scale: 1:5x10 8 (28cm) 1:1x10 9 (14cm) References Map of Jupiter Surf to STL function for MATLAB Other astronomical objects Object Scale [1: x ] K = 10 3 (thousand) M = 10 6 (million) G = 10 9 (billion) Image Inner Solar System Mercury 20M , 60M , 120M Venus 60M , 120M , 250M Earth 60M , 120M , 250M Luna 10M , 20M , 60M Mars 20M , 60M , 120M Phobos and Deimos 200K , 500K Man-made Salyut 7 40, 48, 80 , 160 Near Earth Asteroids Moshup and Squannit 8K , 20K , 40K Ra-Shalom 20K , 40K YORP 1K , 3K Castalia 8K , 20K , 40K Bacchus 8K , 20K Bennu 3K , 8K Ryugu 3K , 8K , 20K Geographos 40K , 80K Phaethon 40K , 80K Itokawa 3K , 8K Eros 80K , 200K , 500K Nereus 3K , 8K Didymos and Dimorphos 8K , 20K Mithra 20K , 40K Golevka 8K Toutatis 40K , 80K Main Asteroid Belt Gaspra 200K Annefrank 40K , 80K Braille 20K , 40K Vesta 2M , 4M , 10M Šteins 40K , 80K , 200K Iris 2M , 4M Hebe 1M , 2M , 4M Lutetia 500K , 1M , 2M Julia 1M , 2M , 4M Mathilde 500K , 1M Juno 2M , 4M Ceres 4M , 10M Pallas 4M , 10M Kleopatra 2M , 4M Ida 500K , 1M Psyche 2M , 4M Interamnia 2M , 4M Elektra 1M , 2M , 4M Hygiea 2M , 4M , 10M Antiope 1M , 2M Jovian System Jupiter 500M , 1G Amalthea 2M , 4M Thebe 1M , 2M Io 20M , 60M Europa 20M , 60M Ganymede 60M , 120M Callisto 60M , 120M Saturn System Saturn 500M , 1G Pan, Daphnis and Atlas 80K , 200K , 500K , 1M Prometheus and Pandora 1M , 2M Janus and Epimetheus 2M , 4M Mimas 2M , 4M , 10M Methone, Anthe and Pallene 40K , 80K Enceladus 4M , 10M Tethys 4M , 10M , 20M Telesto and Calypso 200K , 500K Dione 4M , 10M , 20M Helene 500K , 1M Rhea 10M , 20M Titan 60M , 120M Hyperion 2M , 4M Iapetus 10M , 20M Phoebe 1M , 2M , 4M Uranian System Uranus 250M , 500M , 1G Puck 1M , 2M , 4M Miranda 4M , 10M Ariel 10M , 20M Umbriel 10M , 20M Titania 10M , 20M Oberon 10M , 20M Neptunian System Neptune 250M , 500M , 1G Larissa 2M , 4M Proteus 2M , 4M , 10M Triton 20M Comets Tempel 1 40K , 80K , 200K Wild 2 40K , 80K Churyumov-Gerasimenko 20K , 40K , 80K Hartley 2 20K , 40K , 80K Borrelly 40K , 80K , 200K Halley 80K , 200K Centaurs and TNOs Hidalgo 500K , 1M Chariklo 2M , 4M Pluto and Charon 10M , 20M Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra 500K , 1M Haumea, Namaka and Hiʻiaka 10M , 20M Arrokoth 200K , 500K , 1M Largest TNOs and their moons 10M , 20M Extrasolar Exoplanets 120M , 250M , 500M Nearest white dwarfs 120M , 250M HD 189733 b 1G Pulsars 200K , 500K Cygnus X-1 accretion disk 10M , 20M Homunculus Nebula 2*10 16 , 4*10 16 , 1.2*10 17 M87* photon ring 1.5*10 14 Sky maps Heliosphere 7.5*10 13 , 1.5*10 14 Constellations - CMBR 2*10 28 Ancient Earth (540 Mya to 20 Mya) 60M , 120M , 250M Luna (4 Gya) 20M , 60M Speculative Planet Nine 250M , 500M Cube planet 60M , 120M , 250M Science Fiction Ghroth 4M , 10M Arda 60M , 120M Life Foundation rocket 160 , 200, 350 , 500 B612 10, 20, 32, 40 Mesklin 500M , 1G Arrakis 60M , 120M Borg cube 8K , 20K , 40K Pern 60M , 120M Europa Monolith 200K , 500K Leonora Christine 500 , 600, 1K , 3K Rama 80K , 200K , 500K Tatooine 60M , 120M Death Star 500K , 1M , 2M Starkiller Base 2M , 4M , 10M Z-95 40, 80 , 160 , 200 Eternia 60M , 120M Rocheworld 20M , 60M Visitors mothership 20K , 40K Wheel of Time Earth 60M , 120M , 250M Nirn, Secunda and Masser 20M , 60M , 120M ID mothership 2M , 4M , 10M ID troop transporter 200, 350 , 500 , 600, 1K Heptapod spaceship 1K , 3K , 8K Gaijin flowership 3K Red Moon 60M , 120M Halo Array 4M , 10M , 20M , 60M Gem Homeworld 120M , 250M , 500M Citadel of Ricks 200K The Skeld 40, 80 , 160 , 200, 350 , 500 , 1K Jean Jacket 350 , 500 , 600, 1K Misc Mars (1962 reconstruction) 60M , 120M Flat Earth 250M Expanding Earth 60M , 120M Spaceship of Ezekiel 80 , 160