... Like most of Jupiter's moons, Amalthea rotates synchronously; its long axis is pointed toward Jupiter. ... Amalthea is the reddest object in the solar system. The reddish color is apparently due to sulfur originating from Io . ...
... seen in the full video as they glide around the solar system's ruling gas giant ... above, Ganymede , the largest moon in the solar system, is off the lower right limb ...
... Sun's upper right, blasted out several solar flares and coronal mass ejections since ... Fast moving particles from these solar explosions have impacted the Earth and been ...
... The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system. ... Earth's continents, a process unique in the solar system today (though it may have ... Earth and the Moon slows the Earth's rotation by about 2 milliseconds per century ...
... We discuss briefly the basic properties of the solar activity in the present epoch and the development of ideas of ... a set of active late-type dwarfs, which slowed down to rotation periods of 10–11 days and have the indices of the chromospheric ...
... The spacecraft also rolls so that solar panels are kept pointed at the Sun for power, and the axis of its orbit precesses like a top, making a complete rotation once every 54 days. ...
... Jupiter's own rapid rotation period is a brief 10 hours. ... The Solar System's largest gas giant planet , it is presently well placed for evening viewing . ...