Sarah+Jupiter

= Jupiter Fact = Diameter: 142,984km Distance from the sun: 778.3 millon km One Orbit 11.9 Earth years One Spin: 9.9 hours Number of moons: 63

Jupiter is the largest, most massive, and fastest spinning of all the solar system planets. It has the greatest number of moons, four of wich are large. It would be impossible to land on Jupiter because, like all giant planets, its visible surface is merley the top of a deep, thick atmosphere. Further down, the gas becomes more dense and acts like liquid. Deep inside is a rocky core. A thin, faint ring of dust particles circles the planet.

Jupiter has four large moons called, lo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Io is the most volcanic place in the solar system. Its surface is constanly renewed by fresh erutions. Europa, this ice-covered ball of rock has dark grooves and ridges crisscrossing its water-ice surface. Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system. Its icy crust pockmarked by impact craters. Callisto is the most distant of Jupiter's large moons. The ice in its many impact craters shine brightly.

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