Jupiter
The largest planet in the Solar System.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System, a gas giant with about 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets combined. Its diameter is 11 times Earth's.
Its atmosphere is about 76% hydrogen and 24% helium by mass and is banded by storms, the best known being the Great Red Spot. It rotates once in about ten hours.
Quick Facts
- Inclination
- 1.303° to ecliptic
- 6.09° to Sun's equator
- 0.32° to invariable plane
- Surface gravity
- 24.79 m/s2
- Moment of inertia factor
- 0.2756, 0.0006
- Axial tilt
- 3.13° (to orbit)
- Declination
- 64.495°
- Albedo
- 0.503 (Bond), 0.538 (geometric)
- Magnitude
- −2.94 to −1.66
- Absolute magnitude
- −9.4
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