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Gas Giants: Jupiter and Saturn

2021
In China, Gan De's observations of Jupiter also date to the 4th century BCE. Within 200 years, Chinese astronomers were familiar with the retrograde motion of five planets, including Saturn. The inhabitants of the outer Planetary System are the Jovian Planets after their archetype, Jupiter.
Thomas Hockey   +2 more
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Simulating Gas Giant Atmospheric Entry Using Helium and Neon Test Gas Substitutions

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2019
Flight into the gas giant planets involves atmospheric entry velocities between 20 and 50  km/s, which are mostly beyond the capabilities of current ground testing facilities that make use of test ...
C. James   +4 more
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The Gas Giants

2018
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune fall under this rubric. Why even mention them in the same breath as colonization, given that the prospects for this appear so far in the future? For several answers to this question, as well as a description of them all from a free-market perspective, read the chapter.
Peter Lothian Nelson, Walter E. Block
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The Gas and Ice Giants [PDF]

open access: possible, 2014
The French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir liked to paint outside, en plein air. The experience brought a freshness, an immediacy, to his canvasses. No matter how often he painted in the gardens of Giverny or in the forests of Fontainebleau, nature always provided surprises. In his diaries he commented, “You come to nature with your theories,
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Giant Oil and Gas Fields

1986
At present, there are 509 known giant oil and gas fields in the world. A giant is defined as having 500 million barrels of recoverable oil or equivalent gas. Less than one-third of this discovered amount has been produced to date; thus, remaining reserves are sufficient, at present production rates, to last well into the 21st century. Geologically, the
S.W. Carmalt, Bill St. John
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The Gas Giants

1995
All the planets that have been considered so far are relatively small, solid bodies close to the Sun. Jupiter is completely different, being the first of the large non-rocky planets in the outer solar system with a density, in Jupiter’s case, of not much more than that of water.
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