Jupiter

Jupiter, named after the Roman supergod, is the largest of all the planets in our solar system. The Earth can enter it up to 1000 times. All the planets would fit in. Jupiter is also the first of the gaseous planets. The planet is also called the 'giant planet'.

Jupiter has 16 moons as far as we know. Four of these moons are even larger than Pluto. One of those moons is called Europe and it is completely covered with ice. It is one of the most famous moons of Jupiter. Three also famous manes are called Ganymedes, Io and Callisto. The moon Ganymedes is even larger than Mercury. The four great moons were discovered by Galileo Galilei.

Jupiter is a gas planet, with a temperature of 153 degrees Celsius below 0. The diameter of Jupiter is 139,822 km. The earth is about 11 times as small, or Jupiter is 11 times as large. Jupiter takes about 12 years to make a circle around the sun. And is 778,500,000 kilometres from the sun. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter is two and a half times heavier than all the other planets combined.

Jupiter is named after the Roman god, and Jupiter is therefore called the king of all planets. Jupiter consists of about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium. If Jupiter had been 80 times heavier, it could well have grown into a star. With its mane, it could actually be a mini solar system.

Jupiter has an atmosphere made up of toxic deadly gases. Jupiter also has rings around it, but they are not as visible as Saturn, for example.

The big red spot

Jupiter is completely covered with clouds. In those clouds there are wild solid hurricanes. One of those hurricanes, the great red spot, is 2 times the size of the entire earth. That is a storm that has been active for over 300 years. The winds are blowing at a speed of about 300 to 500 km per hour. On Earth, these speeds only occur during hurricanes and tornadoes. The storm covers more than 40,000 kilometres of Jupiter's surface.

History

Jupiter was the first planet ever formed. Most of the surplus of the formation of the sun was used by Jupiter to grow. When a gas giant arises, it uses all the substances that are in their circle around the sun. As a result, Jupiter was no longer kept in its orbit, because it was so large and there was no debris or planets to stop it. For example, he went through the region where the asteroid belt is now located and recorded 99.9% of the materials there, and thus became even larger. He also came close to where Mars now lies and as a result Mars is now much smaller, because Jupiter swaw more than half of the materials for Mars. He came very close to where Earth now lies and as a result the material for the Earth was also almost all swelled up. But then Saturn came. That was also a gas giant, so the same process continued as Jupiter. But because it was much smaller, the sun's gravity on Saturn was much greater, causing Saturn to hover towards the sun much faster. When Saturn was approximately at Jupiter, Jupiter was almost at where the Earth is today. Due to the gravity of Saturn and the fact that there were now planets other than Jupiter (namely Saturn), these two gas giants returned to where they are now. Jupiter gave us one last farewell gift. Jupiter had taken hydrogen-rich asteroids from the asteroid belt and left them in the zone where the Earth is now. As a result, there could be water on Earth. Without Jupiter, you and I would never have existed. Thank Jupiter for that