PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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.
Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets:
It turns on its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes.
Eight spacecraft have visited Jupiter:
Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses, and New Horizons missions.
Jupiter’s interior is made of rock, metal, and hydrogen compounds
The Great Red Spot is a huge storm on Jupiter:
It has raged for at least 350 years. It is so large that three Earths could fit inside it.
Thick, colorful clouds of deadly poisonous gases surround Jupiter. The quick spinning of the planet whips up the atmosphere, creating the bands around the planet.
Four of Jupiter's moons are bigger than Pluto.
Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field, you would weigh two and a half times as much as you would on Earth.
Surrounding the core is an ocean of liquid hydrogen, about 1,000 kilometres deep.
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