Jupiter

Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is a ball of dense hydrogen, helium, water, nitrogen and other gases over a tiny rocky core. Jupiter is one planet away from earth and four from the Sun. The mass of Jupiter is 318 times the mass of Earth. Jupiter’s magnetic field is also 14 times as strong as Earth.

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet. For all its size and mass, Jupiter sure moves quickly.

In fac t, the planet only takes about 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis. And because it’s spinning so rapidly, the planet has flattened out a little and is bulging at its equator. In fact,

Did you know that you can see Jupiter with the Naked eye? Jupiter is the third brightest object in the Solar System, after [|Venus] and the [|Moon]. Chances are, you saw Jupiter in the sky, and had no idea that’s what you were seeing. The Clouds on Jupiter are only 50 km thick

That’s right, all those beautiful whirling clouds and storms you see on Jupiter are only about 50 km thick.  Jupiter's great red spot visible is where a giant storm has been raging for at least 300 years. This storm's super hurricane winds blow across an area larger than the Earth.  This giant planet has no solid surface. Under its atmosphere is a large liquid ocean of hydrogen and water. What lies in between that ocean and the atmosphere? Actually there is no in between. The atmosphere slowly gets thicker and thicker until it becomes part of the ocean. In other words Jupiter's ocean has no surface on which you could float a boat. The sky slowly becomes the ocean.

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