Jupiter Planet Facts: Jupiter Planet Information 2
# The temperature in the cloud tops of Jupiter is about -230 degrees Fahrenheit.
# The amount of helium in Jupiter is very similar to that in the Sun.
# 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.
# The great red spot on Jupiter is a storm that has been going on for over 300 years.
# You can fit 100 Earths into Jupiter’s great red spot.
# Jupiter has the biggest moon in the Solar System, Ganymede. It is even bigger than Mercury and Pluto.
# Jupiter has a ring just like Saturn and Uranus.
# The Planet has over 60 known satellites (moons) but most of them are extremely small and faint.
# Jupiter is covered by an ocean of hydrogen with a sludge-like consistency.
# Unlike other planets, Jupiter sends out a strong radio radiation that can be detected on Earth.
# In 1994, pieces of a comet called shoemaker-Levy 9 broke apart and crashed into Jupiter. This left patches in Jupiter’s atmosphere that lasted for many months.