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Earth is only one of the planets in our Solar System.

There are seven other


planets that also orbit our Sun.

Venus
Uranus

Earth

Jupiter

Mercury
Neptune

Mars Saturn
The Largest Planet
The planet Jupiter is
the largest planet in
the Solar System. It is
the fifth planet from
the Sun and 588
million kilometres
away from Earth.
Even though it is so far away, Jupiter is usually the fourth brightest object
in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and the planet Venus).

Jupiter

“Moon Rise Over Nation Park” by [Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel] is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Jupiter is a gas giant. It is a
huge ball of gas with no solid
surface. It has a cloudy
atmosphere with colourful
belts and spots.

It is so enormous that you


could fit over 1,300 Earths
inside! To help you imagine
this, if Earth was the size of
a grape, Jupiter would be the
size of a basketball.

Jupiter’s most famous feature


is its Great Red Spot. This is
a giant storm that has been
blowing non-stop for
hundreds of years. The spot is
bigger than the Earth!

“Portrait Of Jupiter From Cassini” by [NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute] is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Jupiter is named after the
king of the Roman gods. The
Romans named it ‘the star of
Jupiter’ after seeing it in the
night sky, believing it to be
sacred to their god, Jupiter.
The Largest Planet
Jupiter is very different from Earth.

• One day on Jupiter is less than 10


hours long! It is the fastest spinning
planet in the Solar System.

• Jupiter takes a long time to orbit the


Sun. One year on Jupiter is the
same as 12 years on Earth.

• Jupiter has 79 known moons. 12 of


those were only discovered in July
2018.

“Portrait Of Jupiter From Cassini” by [NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute] is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Jupiter’s Moons
Out of Jupiter’s 79 moons, the four Galilean moons of Io, Europa,
Ganymede and Callisto are of the most interest to scientists.

Click on each moon below to find out more information!

Io Europa Ganymed Callisto


Exploring

Humans have known about


The first spacecraft to visit Jupiter
Jupiter for thousands of years.
was Pioneer 10 in 1973, followed a
However, it is only recently
year later by Pioneer 11. The
that we have had the
Pioneer spacecraft took the first
technology to study Jupiter and
close-up pictures of the planet.
its moons close up.
Exploring
In 1979, the Voyager 1
and Voyager 2 probes
visited Jupiter. They
studied the moons,
discovered the volcanoes
on Io and the ice on
Europa.

The Cassini probe took


close-up pictures of
Jupiter in 2000 and the
New Horizons spacecraft
passed by Jupiter in 2007,
taking detailed
measurements.
Exploring
In 2016, the Juno
spacecraft put itself in
orbit around Jupiter. It is
measuring the planet’s
atmosphere and has taken
some detailed
photographs of areas
never seen before, such as
Jupiter’s south pole.

It is expected to stay in
orbit until the end of its
mission in July 2021,
when it will crash and
burn up into Jupiter’s
atmosphere.

“Jupiter Southern Storms” by [NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles] is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Photographs of Jupiter

Jupiter's southern hemisphere in beautiful detail taken by


NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Photographs of Jupiter

Detailed image of Jupiter’s bands, taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.


Photographs of Jupiter

Detailed close-up image of Jupiter’s clouds, taken


by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Photographs of Jupiter

A close-up image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, taken


by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft
Photographs of Jupiter

A close-up image of a storm at Jupiter’s north pole, taken


by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

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