Jupiter
Jupiter is called a gas giant planet. Its atmosphere is made up of mostly hydrogen gas and helium gas, like the sun.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.
jupiter facts
- Moons: noon
- Orbit Distance: 57,909 227 km (0.39 AU)
- Diameter: 1,392 684 km
- Orbit period: 88 days
- Mass: 3.99 x 10^30 kg (333,060 Earths)
- Surface Temperature: -173° to 427°C
- First Record: 14th century BC
- Recorded By: Assyrian astronomers