Planet Jupiter

Jupiter is the mom and all the others are the babies.

A good slogan for Jupiter would be: "Jupiter--go big or go home!"

Planet classification of this sort is only a Star Trek invention. It does not exist in science. "M-class" presumably denoted a planet suitable for earthlings....or Vulcans...or whatever.

So the answer is....right here.

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dude what he meant is simply what is the nearest planet that we know of.....aside from earth.... that may have a possibility of being m-class (by the term rich with water and in the "Goldilocks" zone)

by what i have see in a recent set of documentaries they think the nearest planet like that may be 20 light years away... which in the scale of our galaxy inst really too far away XD

The planet Jupiter is named for the Roman god Jupiter, who was the "chief" deity of that ancient culture.

Assuming Jupiter refers to the planet, there's no possible way to narrow it down to even a specific millennium, let alone a month and a day.

Well... of course its an all gas planet. But i must protest. Seeing as its unfortunately hard to get in and out... comets can fly trough the gas and crash into the rocky core. Jupitarians would have to be very cleverly adapter to withstand all that. But jupitarians aren't exactly humans... Look i have to say it... i am Danpondrani... i am a jupitarain.i am the ONLY jupitarian to ever get too earth. In the comet hale-bopp... of as i call it goslo- 548 ... its a hidden spaceship... capable of amazing speeds. it dropped me off at earth before crashing back in jupitar...

Daylight on Jupiter lasts for around 10 hours, because Jupiter's rotation period is about 10 hours. Unlike Earth, which has a roughly 24-hour day, Jupiter's rapid rotation results in shorter daylight periods.

Io, one of Jupiter's moons, has a very small axial tilt of only about 0.04 degrees. This means that Io's rotational axis is almost perpendicular to its orbital plane, resulting in very minimal changes in the orientation of its poles relative to its orbit around Jupiter.

The average wind speed on Jupiter is about 384 mph (620 km/h). Jupiter's fast winds are fueled by its rapid rotation and powerful internal heating.

Jupiter is 390,674,710 miles from Earth. The time it would take to traverse this distance can only be determined if you provide the travel speed.

There is currently one active NASA probe.

There were no space probes actively studying Mercury following the initial one, Mariner 10, in 1974 and 1975. The NASA probe MESSENGER made two fly-bys and began orbiting and mapping Mercury in March, 2011.

On the dayside of the Earth, the field is squashed and measures 6 to 10 times the radius of Earth. However, on the nightside, the solar wind stretches the magnetosphere out to 1000 times Earth's radius.

It is hypothesized that gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn have metallic hydrogen cores deeper within their atmospheres. These cores are formed under extremely high pressure, where hydrogen behaves like a metal. However, direct evidence of these cores is still a subject of ongoing scientific research.

On Jupiter, you'd weigh 196.56 pounds.

They found planet jupiter.

Not at all, they would die instantly

Jupiter is more massive than all of the other planets put together, it's made mostly of hydrogen. It's gravity would crush you, it's surface would absorb you, it's atmosphere would poison you, and if that weren't enough it's got a storm on it's surface roughly the size of the earth that's been there from centuries and is visible from the surface of the earth.

Good question. It is unlikely, though, as there simply is not enough matter in Saturn to have enough gravitational pull to produce enough heat at the centre to induce thermonuclear reactions to form a star - even a small one. Even Jupiter, which is much more massive, is nowhere near massive enough. This idea has been talked about for years. Arthur C Clarke, probably the greatest science fiction writer (well, one of the greatest with Isaac Asimov) and visionary of the 20th century suggested that very thing in 2011 - the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the sequel, the alien monolith appears in Jupiter's Giant Red Spot and causes Jupiter to ignite into a star, thus becoming 'Lucifer' the source of energy which helps thaw Europa's oceans (one of Jupiter's moons) and create a spurt in the evolution of life there. Sadly, however, this is all fiction. Even where planets much larger than Jupiter have been discovered in orbit round other stars, these too have been simply too small to become suns in their own right. So to call Saturn a 'failed' star implies that it could have possiblybecome a star but somehow failed to achiieve this. In the same way, I have 'failed' to become a mother. But as I am male, then I could not possibly have 'failed' in this task (I am a father though - twice over!). So, as Saturn could never be a star to begin with, in that sense, it could not have failed.

It's thought that Jupiter's rings, similar to Saturn's, are the result of rocky debris in orbit around the planet that collides both with other debris and with some of Jupiter's 67 or more moons.

Jupiter's rings are much less prominent than Saturn's, and were only discovered in 1979 by the Voyager I space probe.

Hot and cold are comparative terms.

It is colder on Jupiter's surface than it is on Earth's surface, by mean.

Wikipedia gives the mean surface temperature as 112-165 K, which translates to about -108 Celsius and lower (consider +21 Celsius is recognized as standard room temperature on earth). The coldest temperatures ever verified on earth seem to rank at around -90 Celsius in what are essentially uninhabitable areas.

An important realization is that, due to many factors, Earth's temperature is extremely consistent. A mean temperature hides the fact that other planets undergo 'daily' cycles that range in temperature by hundreds of Celsius.

If that happened on Earth, we wouldn't last very long.

Caveats to this question/answer include: Fluctuations of temperature according to location on Jupiter/Earth, where Jupiter/Earth is in its orbit, where you even define 'surface' to be on a gas giant, etc etc.

The weight of a human on Jupiter would be approximately 2.5 times their weight on Earth due to Jupiter's stronger gravitational pull. For example, if a person weighs 150 pounds on Earth, they would weigh around 375 pounds on Jupiter.

The planet Jupiter is predominantly made up of hydrogen and helium. The core of planet is thought to contain some rock and metallic hydrogen, but Jupiter is mainly made up of gas, hence its classification as a gas giant.

It has much weaker gravity.