:: Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet and the largest one in the solar system.

There is a ring system, but it is very faint and is totally invisible from the Earth.

Jupiter is the third shiniest after the sun!

Jupiter has been visited for the first time by the satellite Pioneer 10.

Jupiter has a great red spot (which is a storm), that has been observed 300 years ago.

The spot is big as 3 times the Earth!

The comet Shoemaker-levy 9 crashed into Jupiter. What we could see was incredible!

Jupiter is composed of gases caled hydrogen and helium, and other gases over a tiny rocky core.

Most other planets in other solar systems are a bit heavier than Jupiter but Jupiter is larger than them.

• Duration of rotation : 10 hours!
• Duration of revolution : 12 years!
  
• Diameter : 142,981 kms. 11 times the Earth!
  
• Distance from the sun: 779 million kms.