study of jupiter

Jupiter is by far the largest of the nine planets and was named Jupiter after the King of the Roman Gods. It is more than twice as large as all the other planets combined - it's 318 times bigger than the Earth.

Jupiter is a gas planet. One of its main features is the Great Red Spot which is an enormous oval of about 14000km by 35000km. It's big enough to swallow two or three of our planet Earths lying side by side!

Jupiter is 2.5 times larger than all of the other planets in the solar system combined. It takes this massive planet a whopping 4,333 days to orbit the Sun one full time!

The swirls and bands which surround Jupiter are the tops of clouds high in its atmosphere.

Jupiter is often the brightest "star" (second to Venus).

It has four moons which you can see with a pair of binoculars.

The planet Jupiter has 63 discovered moons on record. The four largest of these moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, are commonly referred to as the Galilean Moons.