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Jupiter is the fifth and largest planet in our solar system. This gas giant has a thick atmosphere, 17 moons, and a dark, barely-visible ring. Its most prominent features are bands across its latitudes and a great red spot, (which is a storm). Jupiter is composed mostly of gas. This enormous planet radiates twice as much heat as it absorbs from the sun. It also has an extremely strong magnetic field. It is slightly flattened at its poles and it bulges out a bit at the equator.

Size:

Jupiter's diameter is 88700 miles (142800km). This is a little more than 11 times the diameter of the Earth. Jupiter is so large that all the other planets in the solar system could fit …show more content…

On average, it is 480,000,000 miles (778,330,000 km) from the sun. Jupiter is 749,900,000 Km from the Sun. Jupiter has no seasons. Seasons are caused by a tilted axis, and Jupiter's axis is only tilted 3 degrees (not enough to cause seasons). Jupiter has four large moons and 13 small ones. Galileo spacecraft first discovered the four largest moon of Jupiter, called Io, Europa, Ganymede and Ganymede and Callisto. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System

Atmosphere And Planetary Composition:

Temperature Range:

The cloud-tops average 120 K=153*C=-244*F.

Atmosphere:

Jupiter is a gaseous planet; it does not have a solid surface like the Earth does (but probably has a solid, rocky core 10 to 15 times the mass of the Earth). When we look at Jupiter, we are seeing icy clouds of gases moving at high speeds in the atmosphere. Jupiter's atmosphere is composed of about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium. There are only minute traces (0.07%) of methane, water, ammonia and rock dust.

Mantle:

Pressurized hydrogen in the mantle may generate electric currents that generate Jupiter's powerful magnetic field. The outer mantle is liquid hydrogen; the inner mantle is liquid metallic hydrogen. The layers of extraordinarily compressed hydrogen are in a state so extreme that it has never been produced in Earth. The pressure is so great that the hydrogen molecules inside

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