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Time on JupiterĪ day on Jupiter goes by very fast. Jupiter’s atmosphere is the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. The atmosphere is very thick, and it is made out of ammonia, sulfur, methane, and water vapor. Jupiter is covered in swirling cloud stripes and has enormous storms like the Great Red Spot, which has been going on for hundreds of years. It doesn’t have a true surface, but it may have a solid core about the size of Earth at its center. It is made mostly out of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter is a gas giant, just like Saturn. The planet can be seen with the naked eye, you don’t need a telescope or a pair of binoculars to see it. The closest planets to Jupiter are Mars and Saturn. It is the planet with the second-most moons, 79, after Saturn, who has 82.

Jupiter has rings surrounding it, but they are very faint and hard to see. The planet is very similar to a star, but it never got big enough to start burning. It is more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined, being 318 times bigger than Earth. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet of the Solar System.

In a way, Jupiter is the Solar System’s vacuum cleaner, because of its powerful gravity which attracts many of the comets and asteroids to hit it rather than other planets.

Jupiter experiences 200 times more asteroid and comet impacts than Earth.

One AU is equivalent to 150 million km / 93 million mi.

Jupiter is on average about 5.2 AU away from the Sun.

Jupiter’s mass is almost twice of all the Solar System’s planets combined.

Jupiter has a mean radius of 69.911 kilometers / 43.440 miles, a diameter at the equator of around 142.984 km / 88.846 mi, and a diameter at the poles of 133.708 km / 83.082 mi.

Though they can be seen only through ultraviolet, Jupiter’s auroras are the brightest in the Solar System.Jupiter also has 3 ring systems but much smaller than Saturn’s.It is second only to Saturn when it comes to the total amount of satellites. Jupiter has a total of 79 confirmed moons.Through the observations of Jupiter, the discovery of the four Galilean moons ended the belief that everything revolved around the Earth.Basically, it doesn’t have a true surface with its atmosphere reaching altitudes of 5.000 km / 1.864 mi. The envelope of gases – atmosphere – surrounding Jupiter is the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System.Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky and one of the five visible planets ( Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn ).Some consider it a failed star since it is made out of swirling gases and liquids such as 90% hydrogen, and 10% helium – very similar to the Sun. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the biggest planet of our Solar System.

To the ancient Greeks, he was known as Zeus, ruler of the Greek gods, and Mount Olympus. The planet Jupiter is named after the supreme Roman god.