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1 day ago · Jupiter is surrounded by a faint planetary ring system and has a powerful magnetosphere, the second largest contiguous structure in the Solar System (after the heliosphere). Jupiter forms a system of 95 known moons and probably many more, including the four large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and ...
- 13.07 km/s (8.12 mi/s)
- 9.9250 hours (9 h 55 m 30 s)
- 12.6 km/s (7.8 mi/s; 45,000 km/h)
- 200–600 kPa (30–90 psi), (opaque cloud deck)
5 days ago · 1+. Named after the Roman King of the Gods, Jupiter is the biggest planet in the entire Solar System. For a planet 318 times as massive as the Earth, you could only imagine what happens on its surface. Despite how big it is, this gas giant presents many small mysteries for anyone curious about the universe.
2 days ago · Jupiter, processed by Jackie Branc using images taken by the Juno spacecraft on May 12, 2024. NASA’s solar-powered spacecraft Juno has sent back another tranche of images from 560 million miles ...
2 days ago · May 18: Jupiter behind the sun. Today (May 18, 2024), our solar system’s largest planet Jupiter lies as nearly behind the sun from Earth as it will be for 2024.
3 days ago · Io, innermost of the four large moons (Galilean satellites) discovered around Jupiter by the Italian astronomer Galileo in 1610. It is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. As many as 300 volcanoes may be active on the satellite at a given time.
5 days ago · Jupiter's fifth moon to be discovered, and the fifth-largest of the planet's 95 known moons, is Amalthea. It was found in 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard, an American astronomer who was an ...
3 days ago · When NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its closest approach to Jupiter 's moon Europa in September 2022, it captured evidence not only for pockets of briny water connected to the world's deep ...
