Facts About Jupiter

Jupiter is the Roman god of the sky and thunder, the planet Jupiter technically has no surface as it is entirely made out of gas. Jupiter can be seen without a telescope because of its huge size. The gravitational pull of the planet is so high that anything and everything that passes the planets gets pulled towards it. Jupiter has 63 moons and one of them is volcanically active and it is the only moon in the entire solar system to be in such a state. The fastest spinning planet of all, Jupiter has clouds that are up to 50 km thick and the average day on Jupiter lasts around 10 hours. After Venus, Jupiter is the second brightest planet in the Solar System (Venus reflects 70% of sunlight). Mars outshines Jupiter only when approached very close to the Earth.If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 264 pounds on Jupiter.Jupiter has a mass 318 times greater than the Earth's and a diameter that is 11 times larger.The mass of Jupiter is 70% of the total mass of all the other planets in our Solar System.Jupiter's volume is large enough to contain 1,300 planets the size of Earth.Jupiter rotates faster than any planet in the Solar System.It rotates so quickly that the days are only 10 hours long...But it takes 12 Earth years for Jupiter to complete an orbit around the sun.