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"Jupiter is the 'patron saint' of the earth."
As we all know, Jupiter has a very important position in the solar system, it is not only the most massive gas giant in the solar system, but also the existence of the so-called "giant" in the solar system.
With the continuous development of science and technology, human exploration of outer space has become more in-depth, and the study of the solar system has become more and more profound, and people's sense of mystery and awe of Jupiter has also increased.
So what would happen to the solar system without Jupiter?
1. Jupiter is the "protector" of the earth.
There is a "magical" fate about why Jupiter is called the "guardian saint" of the earth.
When studying Jupiter, scientists have found that many comets are not attracted to the solar system by the sun, but are taken by the sun under the gravitational pull of Jupiter.
These comets, which originally had a stable orbit with the Sun, changed their orbits after being attracted by Jupiter, and since then a nova has been formed in the solar system, because of their active orbit and the gravitational pull of perihelion, so scientists call these comets "Halley's comets".
According to statistics, the common feature of the large number of Halley's comets in the solar system is that they have relatively narrow elliptical orbits, and their orbits all cross the orbits of Jupiter.
Because of Jupiter's position in the solar system, it has a strong gravitational pull, which is enough to permanently absorb those comets that shuttle through the solar system to itself, so that they cannot get close to the inner solar system, thus avoiding the collision between these energetic comets and planets, and thus also protecting the planets of the inner solar system, including the Earth, from the risk of comet impact.
In this way, it is clear how important Jupiter is to the Earth?
Will Jupiter lure the Halley-Nation Comet that could pose a threat to Earth to the next track, or will Earth not be affected by the other planets in the solar system?
To this end, NASA focused on the analysis of Jupiter after the Juno probe arrived in 2016.
In an international scientific study in 2016, some scientists used the data returned by "Juno" to put forward a bombshell news: Jupiter is the largest "comet" in the solar system.
Jupiter's core is relatively stable and is mainly composed of hydrogen, while the outer layer is mainly composed of helium, an extremely thick hydrogen helium layer, which is completely characteristic of a comet in appearance, even larger than a real comet.
Jupiter's influence on the solar system is not limited to the number of comets it attracts, because in the formation of the solar system, Jupiter attracted those loose gaseous particles and icy matter in the first 100 million years, allowing them to gather into a large number of asteroids, and in the asteroid belt formed by Jupiter, mainly rocky asteroids.
These asteroids collide and attract each other, resulting in the formation of numerous small planets with a radius of about hundreds of kilometers, which not only protect Jupiter, but also attract the asteroids in front of them, thus slowing them down so that the asteroid belt formed by them does not impact Jupiter at such high speeds.
It is estimated that at the beginning of the solar system, there may be more than 100 billion asteroids in the asteroid belt, and these asteroids can effectively stop the invasion of Halley's comets and minimize the risk of collisions between Earth and other planets.
2. The Great Migration of the Solar System.
The importance of Jupiter is well known, but what not everyone knows is that Jupiter's "misdeeds" between the planets have caused the most dense asteroid belt to be riddled with holes, and also allowed the Earth and other planets to "escape".
In fact, the existence of stars had a significant impact on the evolution of the solar system in the early days of the formation of the Pacific system.
In the early days of the formation of the solar system, the gaseous matter around the sun gradually condensed to form planets of different masses, and according to the different solar radiation, the distribution of planets in the solar system was formed.
After that, the planets fixed their orbits and subsequently formed the basic structure of the solar system, but after this structure was formed, Jupiter began to gradually migrate towards the Sun until it reached a distance of 2.6 billion kilometers from the Sun.
During this high-profile "Great Migration", Jupiter had an unprecedented impact on the solar system, and was even the most important event in the history of the evolution of the solar system since then.
In fact, Jupiter was formed during this great migration.
Jupiter was originally located far from the Sun in the solar system, and as it moved closer to the Sun, it was affected by solar radiation, and its volume continued to expand, until it expanded to a volume close to its current size, and Jupiter's position from the Sun became stable.
On its way to the Sun, it passed through the "hot oil" and "vast" atmosphere, as well as the bombardment of many cryogenic comets such as "Beatles" and "White Cooper", breeding the largest group of "Halley's Comets" in history.
These comets originally revolved around the sun, but under the strong gravitational pull of Jupiter, they not only reversed their orbits, but also gradually formed a stable ring structure, and it was in this great migration of Jupiter that the structure of the solar system changed dramatically, so Jupiter is not only a guardian saint in the solar system, but also a giant that shapes the structure of the solar system.
In the process of Jupiter's gradual migration to the sun, the first planet it encountered was Mars, and this collision was so shocking that some of the material of the two giant planets was even knocked out of the solar system, but Jupiter was swallowed by Mars 300 times its mass.
Subsequently, Jupiter also had an impact on the Earth and Venus, causing the direction of rotation of Venus and the tilt angle of the Earth to change, and even in the distance Mercury, Jupiter vaguely "saw" its trace.
Although the tiny Mercury had "already calculated" Jupiter's itinerary and "ran" backwards, Mercury and Jupiter still collided, causing Mercury to be knocked out of the Earth's orbit, and then there was another impact, and it returned to the Earth's orbit.
3. Causes of the classification of the solar system.
It was on the way of Jupiter's migration that Jupiter and Saturn behind it were affected by distant planets, which caused Jupiter and Saturn's orbits to be disturbed, and even launched to the periphery of the solar system, making Jupiter's and Saturn's orbits more stable, but during this period, these two giant planets were also "marginalized" like "Pluto".
But in practice, the presence of Jupiter has another effect on the development of the solar system, one that is not so obvious.
According to a NASA study, the presence of Jupiter also hinders the formation of massive "super-Earths" because, according to the data analysis that is now known, there are hundreds or thousands of light-class "super-Earths" in addition to the terrestrial planets and megaterous planets that exist in other stars outside the solar system.
However, there are no similar planets in the solar system, and scientists have also studied this different reason through simulation, and finally they found that the existence of Jupiter is the key to the lack of similar "super Earths" in the solar system.
In the "primitive disc" formed by the solar system, the material around the sun is evenly distributed, and when this material gradually condenses to form planets, it is easy to form terrestrial planets with less mass.
But if they are more than twice the mass of Jupiter, they will be more difficult to aggregate due to the difference between their larger gravitational pull and smaller collision velocity, which prevents them from accumulating more matter.
Jupiter, as the most massive planet in the solar system, can effectively prevent the formation of this massive "super-earth", so the solar system is finally divided into 4 terrestrial planets and 4 giant planets after evolution.
At the same time, the asteroid belt in the solar system is also a product of Jupiter, which evolved in the asteroid belt formed by Jupiter, although the number of asteroids in the asteroid belt is gradually decreasing, and now only Ceres, an asteroid hundreds of kilometers long, is left, which still has a strong ability to interfere with Jupiter.
According to the investigation completed by the Magma Dogs, the temperature inside Ceres is 2,150 degrees Celsius, which means that there may be "magma" in its interior.
epilogue
It was on the way of Jupiter's migration that the solar system evolved over hundreds of millions of years to form today's pattern, mainly thanks to Jupiter's existence.
In the era of human beings about to start immigrating to outer space, a deeper understanding of the formation and role of Jupiter can help humans better plan and predict future space exploration activities, and at the same time, the study of Jupiter can also help humans better understand everything in the universe.