What are three facts about Jupiter?

Answer 1

• Jupiter is the largest planet. It is so large that all the other planets could fit inside it with space left over.
• Jupiter is the 5th planet from the Sun
• Jupiter is one of the four gas giants - its surface is covered by a very dense atmosphere
• People could not live on Jupiter, as it has no surface to walk on and no breathable air.
• There are colored bands of clouds, which have varying chemical compositions.
• Jupiter spins the fastest of all planets - it rotates (a day) in just under 10 hours.
• There are faint rings of dust around Jupiter (as with Saturn's icy rings).
• The large red spot on Jupiter is a storm caused by internal heat, like hurricanes on Earth.
• The red spot on the surface of Jupiter has been there since the time that Galileo Galilei first observed the planet with a telescope in 1610.
• As it is made entirely out of gas, technically it has no surface.
• It was named after the primary Roman god (equivalent to Zeus of Greece).
• One of its moons (Europa) is theorized to have the only other source of liquid water in our Solar System, aside from Earth.
• One of its moons (Io) is the only volcanically active moon in the Solar System. It erupts liquid sulfur onto the surface of the moon.
• The Voyager 1 probe was the first to take close-up pictures of Jupiter in 1979.
• Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly involved in storms with very high speed winds.
• It has a small rocky core buried in an atmosphere so dense that at the bottom it is solid hydrogen.
• Its average distance from the Sun is 778 million kilometers (484 million miles).
• It has 63 known moons. Most of them are small, but 4 are larger than Earth's Moon, and larger than the dwarf planet Pluto.
• Jupiter's volume could hold 318 Earths and its diameter is also 11 times larger.
• The planet gives off radio waves that can be detected on Earth.
• It takes 12 Earth years for Jupiter to make one orbit of the Sun.
• it is an average of 44 light-minutes from Earth to Jupiter. (34 light-minutes from Earth's orbit to Jupiter's orbit).