Planet Jupiter

If you weigh 180 pounds here on Earth, on Venus, you'd weigh 158.04 pounds.

ANSWER: It reflects light. The sun is the only body in the solar system to emit light.

The surface temperature of Jupiter varies depending on the region, but averages around -145 degrees Celsius (-234 degrees Fahrenheit). This temperature is mainly determined by Jupiter's distance from the Sun and its composition of mostly hydrogen and helium gases.

Jupiter is a gas giant and the largest planet in our solar system. It has an equatorial diameter of 142,800 km (Earth is 12,756 km). Its mass is equivalent to 317 Earths, and its volume equal to 1321 Earths. It has more mass than all of the other solar planets combined.

Mass = 1.8986×1027 kg

Volume = 1.43128×1015 km³

Radius = 71,492 km's (Earths radius is 6,378 km's)

Mass = 317.83 Earths

Average density = 1.3g/cm3

Jupiter has been visible in the night sky for as long as humans can remember. In 1610 Galileo Galilei published his first accounts of his observations of Jupiter with his telescope. He is credited with finding the first four of Jupiter's moons, which are collectively known as the "Galilean Moons" in his honour. the person who found Jupiter was god. He made everything

Jupiter rotates counterclockwise on its axis, like most other planets in our solar system. Its revolution around the Sun is also counterclockwise when viewed from above the Earth's northern hemisphere.

Jupiter rotates once on its axis each 9.9 hours, and revolves

once around the sun each 11.86 earth years.

Jupiter's period of revolution, also known as its orbital period, is approximately 11.9 Earth years. This means that it takes Jupiter about 11.9 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

The orbital speed of Jupiter as it travels around the Sun is 13.07 kilometers per second. The average surface speed as it rotates is 12.6 kilometers per second.

Jupiter has several natural satellites (moons), over 60 have been confirmed. It has no man made satellites in orbit around it, but did have one between 1995 and 2003, an orbiter called Galileo.

Jupiter is much smaller than the Sun. Jupiter has a diameter of about 86,881 miles, while the Sun's diameter is about 864,340 miles. In fact, Jupiter is about 10 times smaller in diameter than the Sun.

well, it depends on where you live. if you live in the Northern hemisphere it will be cold and if you live in the Southern hemisphere it will be pretty hot

Equatorial Circumference Metric: 439,263.8 km - English: 279,118 miles

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/compchart.cfm?Object1=Jupiter

Diameter Metric: 142,984 km - English: 88,846 miles

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/index.html

Io, one of Jupiter's moons, is known to be volcanically active. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, making it the most geologically active body in our solar system. The volcanic activity on Io is a result of tidal heating caused by its interactions with Jupiter and its neighboring moons.

Asteroids. These are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of the solar system. They are typically found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The orbital periods for the 63 known moons have great variations depending on their distance from Jupiter, from just over 7 Earth hours to over 981 Earth days. The outer 48 moons orbit in the opposite direction from the inner 15 moons. The largest moon, Ganymede, has an orbital period of 7.15 Earth days, racing around the planet in an orbit about a million miles from Jupiter's center.

In real life to date, we have only sent probes past Jupiter. In fiction, perhaps the most famous instances of manned missions to Jupiter are found in the novels of the late Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey, and their sequels).

Jupiter has an equatorial rotation velocity of 12.6 m/sec or 45,300 km/hr (28,150 mph). This provides a Jovian "day" of 9.925 earth hours

The moon Io looks the brightest from the surface of Jupiter. That's because Io is the closest moon to the planet. Io is the moon on the left of the planet.

One year on Jupiter is equivalent to approximately 11.9 Earth years. This is because Jupiter takes about 11.9 Earth years to orbit the Sun once due to its much larger orbit.

Jupiter's farthest moon is called Callisto. It is the second largest moon orbiting Jupiter and is located at a distance of about 1.8 million kilometers from the planet.

A number of factors make it unlikely that Jupiter has a water on its surface.

1. Jupiter doesn't even have a surface! If a space craft were to land on Jupiter, it would sink because Jupiter is comprised almost entirely of gases.

2. Jupiter's distance from the sun make it improbable that there is liquid water existing.

3. The various gases in Jupiter's atmosphere would make the water highly acidic, perhaps corrosive acid rain.

4. None has been detected. However, humans have not scanned every trace of Jupiter personally, machinery can take incorrect data, extraterrestrials may have tampered with what we see, anything could affect the information sent to us. It is possible that a single compound of water exists, but in such quantities that it is easily detectable, there is no such data that supports this.

The polar rotational period of Jupiter is 9 hours, 55 minutes, 40.6 seconds. The equatorial rotational period is 9 hours, 50 minutes, 30 seconds.

How many light years away is Jupiter from Earth when there closest?