Jupiter

 

        This planet is Jupiter. Jupiter is by far the largest of the 8 planets. Jupiter is so big that you could cram 1,000 Earths inside of it! That’s “mighty big!”

 

        Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun.  It is an outer planet.

 

        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. But Jupiter does have its own strange kind of "weather".

The clouds that make up Jupiter are constantly swirling around the planet, driven by winds that average over 200 miles per hour. The winds create an ever-changing pattern of storms. The most famous of these storms is the Great Red spot.

 

A year on Jupiter is almost twelve Earth years. A day on Jupiter, which is the amount of time it takes to spin around once, is much shorter than a day on Earth. The giant planet's day is only about ten hours long, less than half as long as a Earth day.

 

The temperature at the top of Jupiter's clouds is about -230 degrees F. f Jupiter's clouds is about -230 degrees F

 

 

 

Sources:

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Photo from NASA

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