The image of Jupiter was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA.
Temperature: The average temperature at the cloud tops on Jupiter is –244° F (–153° C).
Escape speed: To escape Jupiter’s gravity, you would have to travel 133,100 miles (214,200 km) per hour, compared to the 25,000 miles (40,200 km) per hour required to escape Earth’s gravity.
Other information: The Great Red Spot on Jupiter can be seen through a small telescope. This giant storm will hold back two earths. The Red Spot has been around for almost 400 years.
This planet has between 80 and 95 moons. The four largest moons, Ganymede, Io, Europa, and Callisto, are called the Galilean moons because Galileo first saw them in 1610.
Jupiter has a “pizza moon.” Sulfur-spewing volcanoes cover Io’s surface. At different temperatures, sulfur appears in different colors, making Io look like a giant pizza.
It gives off more energy (in the form of heat) than it gets from the Sun and has four thin, faint rings.
In Roman mythology, Jupiter was the king of the gods and ruler of the heavens — a fitting name for our largest planet. Size: Eleven Earths will be placed side by side on Jupiter’s surface. It is the largest planet in the solar system and has a diameter of 89,000 miles (143,000 kilometers).
Distance from the Sun: It is the fifth planet from the Sun. Its orbit is about 483 million miles (777 million km) from the Sun. That’s five times farther than Earth’s orbit.
Orbit around the Sun: Jupiter takes 12 Earth years to go around the Sun once. So, on your twelfth birthday, place Jupiter in about the same position in the solar system as it was on the day you were born.
Rotation: Even though it takes a long time for Jupiter to go around the Sun, it only takes 10 hours for one rotation on its axis. That’s less than half the time it takes for the earth to rotate once.
Surface: Jupiter does not have a solid surface because its gaseous material becomes denser as depth increases.
Atmosphere: Jupiter’s atmosphere consists mostly of hydrogen (86 percent) and helium (14 percent). The colorful cloud bands we see are actually layers of clouds. Darker clouds tend to be deeper in Jupiter’s atmosphere, while lighter or white clouds are higher. The atmosphere also has giant thunderstorms in the upper clouds.
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