{"id":46,"date":"2022-06-13T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100rss.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:07:21","slug":"facts-about-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sribno.com\/secrets\/mystery\/facts-about-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar system.<br \/>\n<\/i>Only the Sun, Moon and Venus are brighter. It is one of five planets visible to the naked eye from Earth.<\/li>\n<li><i>The ancient Babylonians were the first to record their sightings of Jupiter.<\/i><br \/>\nThis was around the 7th or 8th century BC. Jupiter is named after the king of the Roman gods. To the Greeks, it represented Zeus, the god of thunder. The Mesopotamians saw Jupiter as the god Marduk and patron of the city of Babylon. Germanic tribes saw this planet as Donar, or Thor.<\/li>\n<li><i>Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets.<\/i><br \/>\nIt turns on its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes. The rapid rotation flattens the planet slightly, giving it an oblate shape.<\/li>\n<li><i>Jupiter orbits the Sun once every 11.8 Earth years.<\/i><br \/>\nFrom our point of view on Earth, it appears to move slowly in the sky, taking months to move from one constellation to another.<\/li>\n<li><i>Jupiter has unique cloud features.<\/i><br \/>\nThe upper atmosphere of Jupiter is divided into cloud belts and zones. They are made primarily of ammonia crystals, sulfur, and mixtures of the two compounds.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Great Red Spot is a huge storm on Jupiter.<\/i><br \/>\nIt has raged for at least 350 years. It is so large that three Earths could fit inside it.<\/li>\n<li><i>Jupiter\u2019s interior is made of rock, metal, and hydrogen compounds.<\/i><br \/>\nBelow Jupiter\u2019s massive atmosphere (which is made primarily of hydrogen), there are layers of compressed hydrogen gas, liquid metallic hydrogen, and a core of ice, rock, and metals.<\/li>\n<li><i>Jupiter\u2019s moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system.<\/i><br \/>\nJupiter\u2019s moons are sometimes called the Jovian satellites, the largest of these are Ganymeade, Callisto Io and Europa. Ganymeade measures 5,268 km across, making it larger than the planet Mercury.<\/li>\n<li><i>Jupiter has a thin ring system.<\/i><br \/>\nIts rings are composed mainly of dust particles ejected from some of Jupiter\u2019s smaller worlds during impacts from incoming comets and asteroids. The ring system begins some 92,000 kilometres above Jupiter\u2019s cloud tops and stretches out to more than 225,000 km from the planet. They are between 2,000 to 12,500 kilometres thick.<\/li>\n<li><i>Eight spacecraft have visited Jupiter.<\/i><br \/>\nPioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses, and New Horizons missions. The Juno mission is its way to Jupiter and will arrive in July 2016. Other future missions may focus on the Jovian moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, and their subsurface oceans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot<\/p>\n<p>Situated 22\u00b0 south of Jupiter\u2019s equator, the Great Red Spot is a storm that has been raging for at least 186 years. In fact, upper estimates suggest that this red and turbulent storm could have been in existence for over three and a half centuries. A giant red spot was seen on Jupiter in the seventeenth century, when telescopes first started to be used. However, it is unknown whether this is the same red spot that we see today, or whether Jupiter has had many such storms that have come and gone as the centuries pass.<\/p>\n<p>The red spot circulates anticlockwise and takes six (earth) days to rotate completely. Another mystery surrounding the red spot is what makes it red: scientists have come up with several theories (for instance, the presence of red organic compounds) but as yet nobody knows for certain. That will be a question for future astronomy!<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter\u2019s Atmosphere<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere is special because it is the solar system\u2019s largest planetary atmosphere. It is made up of hydrogen and helium, in roughly the same proportions as are found in the sun. However, it also contains much smaller amounts of other space gases, such as ammonia, methane and water. 90% of the atmosphere of Jupiter \u2013 a huge proportion \u2013 is made of hydrogen. It would be impossible for humans to breathe in this atmosphere. So, if you are thinking of travelling to space to do some hands on astronomy research, you would have to wear a breathing suit when visiting this planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar system. Only the Sun, Moon and Venus are brighter. It is one of five planets visible to the naked eye from Earth. The ancient Babylonians were the first to record their sightings of Jupiter. This was around the 7th or 8th century BC. 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