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Fun facts about Jupiter Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. This dynamic colorful world is a very different kind of planet than the Earth. Our planet is a solid world that you can stand on. Jupiter, on the other hand, is a mostly gaseous world composed primarily of hydrogen and helium with smaller quantities of other materials.This beautiful planet contains swirling clouds of gases in a banded structure. The bands next to each other rotate in opposite directions which creates shear zones and fantastic meteorology. Jupiter also sports a Great Red Spot, noted in its atmosphere for 300 years or more. It is a gigantic storm swirling and roiling endlessly and causing chemical reactions to create the intense colors.
Fourth moon Europa is the fourth largest moon of Jupiter and is a little smaller than the Earth’s moon. It has a thin outer layer of ice. Most of the surface is smooth with very few craters but there are dark streaks and pits on its surface. Some scientists think that Europa has a deep liquid ocean under its icy shell. It is possible that life could exist in the water there. This picture is from information taken from NASA’s Galileo missions. http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Colorado
Information Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the largest planet in the solar system. If Jupiter were hollow, more than one thousand Earths could fit inside. It also contains two and a half times the mass of all the other planets combined. It has a mass of 1.9 x 1027 kg and is 142,800 kilometers (88,736 miles) across the equator. Jupiter possesses 62 known satellites. The four largest are Callisto, Europa, Ganymede and Io, and were named after Galileo Galilei who observed them as long ago as 1610. The German astronomer Simon Marius claimed to have seen the moons around the same time, but he did not publish his observations and so Galileo is given the credit for their discovery.
All About Jupiter Jupiter is so vast that it exerts an enormous gravitational pull on things around it. This makes Jupiter like a gigantic vacuum cleaner. Asteroids and meteoroids that come near it are sucked up into its atmosphere. Jupiter is the largest planet. It weighs three hundred times more than Earth, and is more than twice as heavy as all the other planets added together! Over 1,400 earths could fit inside it. The core of Jupiter is rock and metal, possibly the size of the planet Earth. If it were possible to drive around Jupiter's equator in a car, the trip would take six months of nonstop 24 hour a day travel! A similar trip around the earth's equator would only take two weeks.
Jupiter Jupiter is the fastest spinning of the planets. The fast rotation stirs the atmosphere and clouds into dark and light colored stripes called belts and zones. In 1995, the space probe Galileo sent a mini probe down into the atmosphere and found that the winds on Jupiter blew far stronger than any winds on Earth. Jupiter's Great Red Spot extends more than three times the Earth's diameter. The Great Red Spot lies across Jupiter's southern end. The spot is a giant storm that has been raging for over one hundred years.
