Jupiter
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM
It consists, starting from the center, of the following: - Sun; - 4 Rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars and their moons); - belt asteroids; - 4 Gaseous planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and their moons); - various small objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, for example: a) Kuiper belt objects, including but not limited Pluto, until recently included among the planets (now it is regarded as a dwarf planet); b) objects belonging to the scattered disc, such as, inter alia, Sedna with unusual orbits disturbed; HOMEc) Oort cloud (the yield of the solar system).
A system according to Copernicus heliocentric system
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JUPITER
Jupiter - the largest planet of the solar system, the fifth by the distance from the Sun. There is a huge ball of gas. There is mainland. The top layer consists of hydrogen and helium below more like liquid. Even deeper hydrogen is similar to the liquid metal.
In the core of Jupiter there are small, rocky parts, three times hotter than the surface of the Sun. Jupiter's surface consists of light and dark stripes. Atmosphere is dotted with huge amount of turmoil and cyclones. The largest and most famous of them is the "red spot" that is 32 thousand km long and 13 km wide. Jupiter has 16 moons. The largest ones are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
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Explorer: Date of Discovery:
778 mln km
Diameter:
142984 km
Running time around its axis (on Earth): Average temperature:: Number of moons:: Number of rings::
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known in antiquity
Distance from the Sun: Time orbit around the Sun (on Earth):
The Great Red Spot
unknown
11,86 years 9 hours 55 minutes -147ยบC do 427ยบC 16 3
Comparison of Jupiter and Earth
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