• Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.

• It orbits the Sun in 11.8623 Earth years.

• Jupiter is really a small star, large enough for gravitational pressure to heat the core for nuclear fusion to occur.

Jupiter is about 629 million km. Away from earth.

Jupiter is 778 million km Away from the sun

• Earth rotates about its axis at 15 angular degrees per hour.

• Rotation creates time zones with differing local noon’s, and also causes apparent movement of the moons, stars, and planets across the celestial sphere.

• The rotation of Earth is from west to east making the apparent rotation of the celestial sphere from east to west.

Jupiter is 90,000 miles in diameter. It is 10 times the size of the earth and  318 times as massive. The density is 83 pounds. 

Jupiter has a vast range of temperatures. At the cloud tops, the temperature of Jupiter is thought to be -145 degrees C. The temperatures are roughly room temperature about 20 degrees C.

Jupiter is a gas giant. This means that it has a huge atmosphere, a liquid mantle, and a liquid with no definite boundary between the layers. The core of Jupiter is probably composed of liquid rock, at a temperature as high as 24,000 K The core is small relative to the planet, it is fifteen times heavier than the Earth.

The atmosphere appears as alternating bands of light regions, called zones, and dark regions called belts, that run parallel to the equator. The zones are higher in altitude than the belts, and are lower in temperature. It is believed that the belts represent descending areas of low pressure. Jupiter radiates heat energy out to space by way of convection. The zones carry energy to the surface and then cool, and sink again.

     It is the same high rate of rotation that powers the atmosphere, and causes it to stretch into the bands we see. Jet streams form between the boundaries of the belts and zones which create disturbances. These jet streams are very fast, over 3 times the speed of the fastest jet stream on Earth. These disturbances may be short lived, or they might last for many hundreds of years.

Jupiter has the most moons of any of the planets in our solar System. 63 moons have been discovered around the gas giant. Four satellites are comparable to the Earth's moons in size; the rest are smaller.

Jupiter is composed of small rocky core, surrounded by metallic hydrogen, liquid hydrogen, and gaseous hydrogen. There is no clear boundary or surface between these different phases of hydrogen, the conditions blend smoothly from gas to liquid as one descends.

Since Jupiter is a gas planet, it doesn't have a surface. This means that nothing can land on the planet because there is nothing solid to land on. The clouds that make up Jupiter are swirling around the planet, by winds that average over 322 kilometers. The winds create an pattern of storms.. So we wouldn’t be able to go to Jupiter or we would die.

Jupiter is made of gas. Jupiter has a solid heart, called a kernel, made of rock and ice. The kernel may be into a central core, a rocky inner mantle, and an outer mantle of ice. We think that life on Jupiter would be because its made of rock and ice and theirs no air or anything to eat.

• Jupiter has 63 moons.

• Jupiter is composed of a small rocky core.

• Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.

• Jupiter has the most moons of any of the Solar system.

• Jupiter is 90,000 miles in diameter.