Surface area:
61.42 billion km²
Mass:
1.898 × 10^27 kg
Radius:
69,911 km
Orbital period:
12 years
Gravity:
24.79 m/s²
Distance from Sun:
778.5 million km
1. A year on Jupiter
equals 12 years on Earth.
2. 91%
of atmosphere in Jupiter
is Hydrogen.
3. Jupiter
is the biggest planet in our solar
system.
4. There is a Powerful
Strom in the Jupiter called "The Great Red Spot".
5. The Great Red Spot first saw
by Astronomers in 17th century.
6. The USA
became the first to reach Jupiter
in 1973.
7. Jupiter
spins around its axis at a speed of 12 km per second.
8. This also gives Jupiter the shortest days out of any planet in the entire Solar System. 10 hours in
earth make up 1 day in Jupiter.
9. Jupiter’s
atmosphere has a
depth of 5000 km.
10. Jupiter’s
Great Red Spot is bigger than the Earth measuring 16,350 km
or 1.3 times wider than the Earth.
11. Storm’s
outer layers move at a speed of up to 680 km per hour.
12. Jupiter
has a very thin and faint ring made up of dust. They are named:
Halo
(a thick inner ring)
Main
(a wide and flat ring)
Gossamer rings (a pair
of faint outer rings).
13. Reactions inside Jupiter cause the planet to shrink by 2 cm every year.
14. Scientists think ancient Jupiter was actually twice as big as it is
today.
15. Jupiter
has a core.
16. Jupiter
is the fifth planet from the Sun.
17. Jupiter
is the third brightest planet in the night sky after Earth’s moon
and Venus.
18. More than 1,300 earths would fit inside Jupiter.
19. Jupiter
also has the ability to alter the orbit of other planets such as Mars.
20. Jupiter
is also nicknamed “vacuum
cleaner of the solar system” because of its ability to attract other heavenly
bodies into it due to its Massive size and strong magnetic field.
21. Jupiter
helps the earth by
deflecting comets and asteroids away from it. These comets and asteroids could
strike Earth causing damage.
22. Jupiter
and Saturn are gas
giants.
23. Jupiter
can easily put to fire
anything that comes in its contact.
24. Jupiter
is 318 times heavier than earth.
25. Jupiter
has the maximum number of moons
in the solar system –
67 to be precise.
26. Jupiter
experiences wind speeds of 192 mph to more than 400 mph.
27. Jupiter
is named after Jupiter, the king of the Roman gods
in mythology.
28. If you weighing 100 pounds on earth would weigh 240 pounds on Jupiter.
29. Jupiter’s
magnetic field is 16 to 54 times as powerful as that of the earth.
30. Jupiter
has an average temperature of minus
145 degree Celsius. But temperature
near the core of the planet are hotter than those away from it.
31. The Clouds
On Jupiter Are Only
50 km thick.
32. Jupiter's
magnetic field is stronger becuase of swirling movements liquid metallic hydrogen
in core.
33. Jupiter’s
mass is almost twice of all the Solar
System’s planets combined.
34. If Jupiter
would be 75 times more massive than it currently is, it could become a star just like our Sun.
35. Jupiter
is surrounded by dangerous waves of radiation.
36. If you could go down on Jupiter, the thin, cold atmosphere would become thicker and hotter until it turns into a thick,
dark fog.
37. Jupiter's
pressure is so high that the gases become liquid.
38. Jupiter
generates more heat than it receives from
the Sun.
39. One of the most important moons of Jupiter is Europa. This moon may
have water on
it, and it is currently closely studied.
40. Io,
One of the Jupiter's moon
which is the most volcanically active body in
the Solar System.
41. Jupiter’s
moon Europa has many
chances of developing life.
42. Jupiter
shrinks 2 centimeters every year because it radiates
too much heat.
43. Jupiter’s
moon Ganymede
is the largest moon in the solar system Larger than Mercury.
44. Jupiter’s
environment is probably not conducive to life as we know it.
45. Eight spacecraft have visited Jupiter so far.
46. Jupiter’s
axial tilt of 3.17° is extremely small this means Jupiter doesn’t experience seasons at all.
47. Jupiter's
rotation is weird Jupiter’s different parts rotate at different speeds.
48. Jupiter,
like Earth, has an Aurora (Northern Lights). appears to be an
electric blue color.
49. The center of Jupiter is approximately 72,000 degrees Fahrenheit which is hotter than the Sun's surface.
50. Without Jupiter's
mass gravity, Earth
would be hit by many more asteroids.
51. Jupiter
produces powerful blasts of natural radio waves stronger than those that
the Sun produces.
52. Galileo was the
first to discover the four major moons of Jupiter in 1610.
53. If a person could travel the speed of light, it would take them 43 minutes to reach Jupiter from Earth.
54. Jupiter's
moon Callisto is the
most heavily cratered body in the solar system.
55. Scientists use Jupiter’s gravitational force as a mighty slingshot to push spacecraft into the outer solar system.
56. Sunlight
reaches Jupiter in
about 43 minutes 20 seconds.
57. Callisto
is Jupiter’s
second-largest moon. It has a higher number of craters compared to any
other object in our solar
system.
58. Jupiter
moons are divided into three groups:
Inner moons: closest to Jupiter and are referred to
as inner moons.
Largest moons: They are together known as Galilean
Moons.
Outer moons: They are smaller and furthest from
Jupiter. These moons have irregular orbit paths.
59. Dust particles of Jupiter’s inner moons are responsible for creating the rings of this giant
planet.
60. Jupiter
has a series of about six to nine white ovals in its southern hemisphere
but they are a sequence of huge storms.
61. In 1994 A large
comet name Shoemaker Levy-9 hit Jupiter for many days
created numerous big and dark scars in the planet’s atmosphere.