Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in our solar system. It has a day that is just under 10 hours and takes around 11.86 years to orbit the Sun. Jupiter is composed mainly of gas and liquid metallic hydrogen and has no solid surface. Some key facts about Jupiter include that it is over 11 times the size of Earth and has over 300 times the mass.

2.  Fifth planet
 Largest
planet
 Fourth brightest object
in the sky

3.  Visible to naked eye
 Day = 9.9 hours
11.86 years to orbit the
sun

4.  Gas giant planet
 Outer planet or Jovian
planet
 Astronomical symbol,

5. Some astronomers
believed that JUPITER is
a

6. MYTHOLOGY
In Roman
Jupiter is the principal
god and the counter part
of mythical Greek Zeus,
the king of gods and the
son of Cronus

7. eleven times
the earth’s; tenth of the
sun’s
gas and
metallic liquid; has no
solid surface.

8. Mainly composed of
elements and
. There are also
traces of ethane, water
vapor, silicon based
compound

9. three hundred
eighteen times the earth’s;
two point five times the
mass of combined seven
planet. And almost 1321
earths could
fit inside

10. Jupiter is thought to have
a rocky core surrounds
with metallic hydrogen
with helium and has an
outer layer of molecular
hydrogen

11. the cloud layer is divided
into two, the lighter-heud
layers is called and
the darker’.

12.  is the best known feature of
Jupiter, obtained by
on Feb.1979.
 it is believed that it has been
existed in early 17th
century

13. -it is a persistent anticyclone
in the southern hemisphere
with strength of 350-400 mph
and it takes ten days to
complete one rotation

14. Jupiter has a faint planetary
ring with three segments; halo
ring, bright main ring ( Adrastea
and Metis) and gossamer
ring(Amaltea and thebe).the
ring is made up of
dust

15. -is believed to be the largest
entity in the solar system.
- Its tail reaches the outer
orbit of Saturn.
-this is where the Jovian’s
moons orbiting including the
Galilean moons

16. -it is cause by a huge comet
named
,and it was gained by
Galileo mission on 1994

17. -it is also known as the
vacuum cleaner of the solar
system.
-it also believe that it was the
star in Bethlehem.