What are some cool or facts about Jupiter?

Answer 1

Jupiter is about 11 Earths wide.

Jupiter takes about 12 Earth Years to orbit the Sun.

Jupiter is the largest planet, and contains 71% of all planetary matter in the solar system.

Its huge gravity pulls every object in the solar system slightly toward it.

Jupiter's days are only about 10 hours long - it rapidly spins, and different latitudes rotate at different speeds within the dense atmosphere.

Jupiter now has 67 known moons. However, the newest ones discovered are no more than 2 to 4 kilometers in diameter.

Because of its immense size, Jupiter may have been a "failed sun" but it is not as massive as the average dwarf star companion.

Jupiter is the 5th planet from the Sun. It is the largest of the 8 major planets, and has more mass than all the other planets combined. It is a gas giant, with a small rocky core surrounded by an immense gaseous atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, so dense near the core that hydrogen actually becomes solid.

Other facts:

• People could not live on Jupiter, as it has no surface to walk on and no breathable air.
• There are colored cloud bands in the atmosphere, which have various chemical compositions.
• The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is the largest of the storms in the outer atmosphere. They are caused by internal heat, like hurricanes on Earth. The red spot has been there since the time that Galileo Galilei first observed the planet with a telescope, in 1610.
• Jupiter spins the fastest of all planets - it rotates (its day) in just under 10 hours.
• There are faint rings of dust around Jupiter (as with Saturn's icy rings).
• It was named after the primary Roman god (equivalent to Zeus of Greece).
• One of its moons (Io) is the only volcanically active moon in the Solar System. It erupts liquid sulfur onto the surface of the moon.
• The Voyager 1 probe was the first to take close-up pictures of Jupiter in 1979.
• Its average distance from the Sun is 778 million kilometers (484 million miles).
• It has 63 known moons. Most of them are small, but 4 of them (the Galilean moons) are larger than Earth's Moon, and larger than the dwarf planet Pluto.
• Jupiter is is 88,846 miles or 142,984 kilometers in diameter. This is 11 times the diameter of Earth and its volume could hold 318 Earths.
• The planet's magnetic field gives off radio waves that can be detected on Earth.
• It takes 12 Earth years for Jupiter to make one orbit of the Sun.
• it is an average of 34 light-minutes from Earth's orbit to Jupiter's orbit
• Jupiter is still very slowly shrinking because of its excessive gravity.
• One of its satellites (Europa) has an ice-covered ocean of underground water (the only liquid water found other than on Earth) where scientist believe some form of life is possible.

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, it also has the biggest moon in our solar system, Ganymede. Jupiter's magnetic field is so strong, that it pours billions of watts into Earth every single day!

Jupiter has 63 moons or satellites also the diameter is 88,846 miles or 142,984 kilometers. Jupiter is the 5th planet from the sun

The gravity on Jupiter is 2.528 times as strong as on Earth, so a 100 pound person would weigh 252.8 pounds on Jupiter.

1. It is the most massive of the planets;

2. It has the strongest magnetic field of the planets;

3. The planet has no solid surface;

4. The core temperature is 25,000 k;

5. The great red spot is roughly the same diameter as Earth;

6. The atmosphere is made up of mainly Hydrogen and Helium;

7. The first objects in the solar system discovered by means of a telescope were the four brightest satellites of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto);

8. Jupiter is 5th planet from the sun;

9. The planet was named after the Roman King of the Gods;

10. Jupiter is the source of intense bursts of radio noise, at some frequencies occasionally radiating more energy than the Sun.

Five important facts about Jupiter:

1. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It is mostly dense hydrogen, and its mass is more than 2.5 times the mass all of the other planets put together.

2. The swirling colors of Jupiter mark different types of gases, and it has gigantic turbulent storms. One, the Great Red Spot, has lasted at least 350 years and is 3 times as big as the Earth.

3. Jupiter, although huge, spins faster than any of the other planets, with one spin taking less than 10 hours. The rotation is slower near the poles.

4. Jupiter appears as a star-like speck in the sky because it is so far from Earth, between 700 and 800 million kilometers from the Sun. It takes nearly 12 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the Sun.*

5. Jupiter has, like Saturn, more than 60 moons of various sizes, some of which are likely captured asteroids. The largest Jovian moons (Ganymede and Callisto) are bigger than the planet Mercury. Europa, somewhat smaller, is thought to have an underground ocean of liquid water. Io, which is colored a sulfurous yellow, is covered with volcanoes, and is the most geologically active object in the solar system. Jupiter also has a tenuous set of rings that circle along with some moons.

Also:

It takes 4333 Earth days for Jupiter to orbit the Sun.

The asteroid belt, midway between Mars and Jupiter, is regularly perturbed by Jupiter's immense gravity.

A speeding comet broke into fragments that hit Jupiter in 1994, exploding in a series of fireballs that may have had a combined energy release of 6 million megatons of TNT.
*It has quite a lot of gravity to wipe out any object that it approaches.

*It is the largest planet in our solar system

*It has a very large red spot

*The red spot could fit two Earths into it.

*The Great Red Spot is known to be a huge storm

*The storm has been running for about 300 years

*Scientists have known about the spot in the late 1600's

*Known as Zeus in the Greek language

*If you travelled onto Jupiter you would be very heavy for example if you weighed 70 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 185 pounds!

*Jupiter has more than 63 moons
Several interesting facts about Jupiter are these below:

1.)It has the fastest rotating period

2.)The atmoshere contains hydrogen and helium

3.) It has the most moons than any other planet

4.) Some of its moons have water ice

5.) Some of its moons have volcanic activity.
it is very big
One intresting fact is that one of it's moons has life.its close to uranus ;oJupiter has 63 moons or satellites also the diameter is 88,846 miles or 142,984 kilometers. Jupiter is the 5th planet from the sun

Average ditance from the sun is 778,400,000 its diameter is 142,984 its length of a day measured in earth time is 10 hours its length of a year measured in earth years is 12 years its average surface..

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Jupiter is a gas giant and the largest planet in the Solar System. Its unique feature is its Giant Red Spot. The red spot is a spinning storm, much like a hurricane.

Answer 2

Jupiter is the 5th planet from the sun about 450 milion miles away from the sun.Jupiter has the most fastest rotation period in the solar system with 9 hours and 55 minutes that's almost 3 times faster then the earth.Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system 1,300 times bigger then the earth even if we combine every planet in the solar system Jupiter is still 2 and a half times bigger.it has a volume of 1361 times the earths 318 times more massive then our planet and jupiters magnetic field is 14 times stronger then the earths it is powerful enough to hold 63 moons.Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface it is made out of gas it has a great red spot that is known for over 300 years that great red spot is 3 times more bigger then our earth if we ever tryed to send a spacecraft inside Jupiter we really wont have any success because Jupiter's pressure is so great that it would crush the probe in piece's are very lucky that we have Jupiter because in 1994 there was a comet heading for our planet Jupiter's magnetic field intercepted the comet crushing it into pieces life as we no it would have been over there was thousand of asteroids that were heading our way bout Jupiter crushed all of them if Jupiter wasn't there inside of us getting hit every 100 milion years we would have been hit every 10,000 years this is y we thank Jupiter for protecting our planet for severely times.

Answer 3

That is a very random planet....

It would have been much easier if you just said earth...

but here are some facts you might find interesting:

• Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar system. It is so big that more than 1300 Earths could fit inside it.

• Thick, colorful clouds of deadly poisonous gases surround Jupiter. The quick spinning of the planet whips up the atmosphere, creating the bands around the planet.

• If you were to descend into Jupiter, the thin, cold atmosphere becomes thicker and hotter, gradually turning into a thick, dark fog. In the blackness about 1000km down the pressure squeezes the atmosphere so hard that it becomes like liquid.

• At the centre of Jupiter is a rocky core, slightly bigger than Earth but weighing about 20 times more.

• Surrounding the core is an ocean of liquid hydrogen, about 1,000 kilometres deep.

• Jupiter has many storms raging on the surface, most notably the big red spot which is the largest hurricane in our Solar System. It's been raging for over three hundred years.

• Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field, you would weigh two and a half times as much as you would on Earth.

• Jupiter has many moons circling around it. Four of these moons are bigger than Pluto.

Answer 4

it has a red dot which is not a dot; it is actually a sandstorm

it has a sandstorm which is called the great red spot

Answer 5

May be about its Composition,Size,or may be how the Name of Jupiter came,its weather, its defence power or how 16 moons are for Jupiter.

Answer 6

Jupiter is like the size of almost 3 earths

Answer 7

Jupiter has a great red spot