Jupiter

Jupiter’s average distance from the sun is about 778,570,000 kilometres, more than five times Earth’s distance from it. Ancient astronomers named Jupiter after the king of the roman gods. Jupiter is a giant ball of gas and liquid, with little amount of solid surface. Instead, the planet’s surface is composed of dense red, brown, yellow and white clouds. The clouds are arranged in light coloured areas called zones and darker regions called belts that circle the planet below the equator.

Jupiter travels around the sun in an oval shaped orbit. Jupiter takes 9 hour 56 minutes to spin around on it’ axis. It takes 12 earth years to complete one orbit around the sun. The temperature at the top of Jupiter’s clouds is 145 degrees Celsius. At the planet’s core, the temperature is much higher. The core temperature is around 24,000 degrees Celsius, hotter than the surface of the sun. Jupiter has three thin rings around its’ equator. They are much fainter than the rings of other planets. The main ring is about 30 kilometres thick and 6,400 kilometres wide. Jupiter has 16 satellites that measure 10 kilometres in diameter. It also has many smaller satellites, in order of their distance from Jupiter, are Lo, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These four moons are called the Galilean satellites.

Jupiter’s average distance from the sun is about 778,570,000 kilometres, more than five times Earth’s distance from it. Ancient astronomers named Jupiter after the king of the roman gods. Jupiter is a giant ball of gas and liquid, with little amount of solid surface. Instead, the planet’s surface is composed of dense red, brown, yellow and white clouds. The clouds are arranged in light coloured areas called zones and darker regions called belts that circle the planet below the equator.

Jupiter travels around the sun in an oval shaped orbit. Jupiter takes 9 hour 56 minutes to spin around on it’ axis. It takes 12 earth years to complete one orbit around the sun. The temperature at the top of Jupiter’s clouds is 145 degrees Celsius. At the planet’s core, the temperature is much higher. The core temperature is around 24,000 degrees Celsius, hotter than the surface of the sun. Jupiter has three thin rings around its’ equator. They are much fainter than the rings of other planets. The main ring is about 30 kilometres thick and 6,400 kilometres wide. Jupiter has 16 satellites that measure 10 kilometres in diameter. It also has many smaller satellites, in order of their distance from Jupiter, are Lo, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These four moons are called the Galilean satellites. By Jack

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the 5th from the Sun; it has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky. It is a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Those four planets are sometimes referred as Jovian planets. Jupiter’s age is between 4.5 billion and 5 billion. The Great Red Spot that features on the planet is a great anti-cyclonic storm akin to a hurricane on Earth. It’s terrifying hurricane on the Great Red Spot almost three times the size of Earth. Jupiter has seven rings around. They’re called Halo, Main Ring, Adrastea, Metis, Thebe, Amalthea and Gossamer Rings. Jupiter’s ring consists of several very thin rings that look like a single ring. It’s much darker and smaller than Saturn’s. The temperature of Jupiter’s clouds is about -145degrees C (-230degrees F). Measurements made by ground instruments and spacecrafts show that Jupiter’s temperature increases with depth below the clouds. Jupiter’s average temperature is -148degrees C (-234degrees F). Jupiter travels around the Sun in a slightly oval-shaped orbit. Jupiter completes one orbit in 4,333 Earth days, or almost twelve Earth years. The planet rotates faster than any other planet. It takes 9 hours and 56 minutes to spin around once on its axis, compared with 24 hours on Earth. By Brandon