Planet Jupiter

Jupiter is the 5th closest planet to the Sun.


Diameter of Jupiter = 88,846 Miles

Distance from Jupiter to the Sun = 460,000,000 miles at its closest and 508,000,000 miles at its furthest.

Distance from Jupiter to Earth = 365,000,000 miles at its closest.

One Rotation of Jupiter takes = 9 Hours 56 Minutes. Jupiters extreme rotation speed causes the planets shape to bulge at its equator. The diameter of Jupiter at its equator is about 7% larger than it is at the poles.

One Orbit around the Sun takes = 4,333 Earth days (almost 12 Years).

Atmosphere on Jupiter = 86% Hydrogen, 14% Helium, with very tiny amounts of methane, ammonia, phosphine, water, acetylene, ethane, germanium, and carbon monoxide

Speed of Travel during orbit = Approximately 29,236.75 MPH

Distance of Travel (one Orbit) = Approximately 3,040,387,928 Miles (Over 3 Billion Miles)

Rings = 3 Very thin Rings (Much fainter than the rings of Saturn).

Natural Satellites (Moons) = Jupiter has 16 satellites that are at least 6 miles in diameter, with many smaller ones. The four largest, known as the Galilean satellites, are - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

Other Notes = Jupiter has very little solid surface. Instead, it is a large ball of gas, its surface, a very dense layer of different colored clouds.

Jupiter has a large mass of swirling gas, known as the Great Red Spot, that spans 24,860 miles across (About 3 times the diameter of the Earth). The outer edge of the Great Red Spot travels at about 225 mph.

Jupiter's gravity is approximately 2.4 times stronger than on Earth. so something weighing 100 lbs on Earth would weigh 240 lbs on Jupiter.