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While Jupiter is composed mainly of gasses there is a solid core at the center of the planet roughly the same size as the earth. The surface of this core is believed to be composed of glacier ice.

Therfore Jupiter does have landforms.

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Does Jupiter have any mountains or craters or rivers or etc?

Jupiter does not have a solid surface like Earth, so it does not have mountains or craters. Instead, it is a gas giant mostly made up of hydrogen and helium. It also does not have rivers or any liquid water on its surface.


Explain why no craters from the shoemaker-levy-9 impact on Jupiter are visible today?

The impacts on Jupiter were only several kilometers deep, very small compared to the size of Jupiter. The impacts were later seen as dark patches, which disappeared as the winds of Jupiter carried them off.


Does Ganymede have craters?

Yes, Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, does have craters on its surface. These craters are formed by impacts from asteroids and other celestial bodies over the moon's history. Ganymede's craters provide valuable information about the moon's geological history and the history of impacts in the Jovian system.


Why are craters found on Ganymede and Callisto?

Craters are found on Ganymede and Callisto because they are both moons of Jupiter, which have been bombarded by asteroids and comets over time. These impacts have left behind craters on their surfaces, as there is no atmosphere to protect them from such collisions.


How many craters are on Saturn?

Jupiter has such a dense atmosphere that anything entering it at high speed will burn up before reaching any solid surface where it could create a crater. In fact, it is not known if Jupiter even HAS a solid surface at all! The pieces of the comet that did hit Jupiter's atmosphere left some pretty amazi ng perturbations in that atmosphere as we saw from pictures taken with telescopes (including the Hubble Space Telescope) shortly after the collisions. Note: the comet had already broken up into many pieces before colliding with Jupiter.