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The Gas Giant Planets

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The Gas Giant Planets
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	high interest, readability grades 5 to 7
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.13

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	challenging words:		microscopic, hydrogen, helium, planetary, nitrogen, rotation, revolution, atmosphere, orbit, rage, methane, violent, mass, fluid, particle, lightweight
	content words:		Hubble Space Telescope, Great Red Spot, Like Jupiter, Great Dark Spot

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The Gas Giant Planets By Patti Hutchison

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¹     Caption: Picture of Saturn from the Hubble Space Telescope
 
²     Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. These are the giant gas planets. Scientists think they are made of small, solid cores. Their interiors are fluid. Lightweight gases such as hydrogen and helium make up most of their mass. With all their satellites and ring systems, they are very interesting to observe.
 
³     Jupiter is the largest planet. It is the fifth from the sun. The length of its year is about 4330 Earth days. This is how long it takes for Jupiter to make one revolution around the sun. It spins very fast, however. It takes only about nine Earth hours for Jupiter to make one rotation.
 
⁴     Jupiter's diameter is eleven times larger than Earth's. In fact, Jupiter is only ten times smaller than the sun. This giant planet makes up about 70 percent of all the planetary matter in our solar system.
 
⁵     Jupiter's atmosphere is made of mostly helium and hydrogen. There are strong winds in its upper atmosphere. These cause violent storms that rage almost all the time. The Great Red Spot is actually a giant storm. It has been seen for over 300 years.

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