Sunday, July 25, 2010

Jupiter

The Great Red Spot
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It is also a gas giant, a group of 4 planets made almost compeletly of gas. Jupiter has many moons (over 60). One of it's moons, Europa, has a liquid ocean underneath it's icy surface. Jupiter fas a large storm that has been there for at least 50 years known as the great read spot, it is over 100 times stronger than a hurricane. Jupiter has a very thin ring that is not easily seen and has the strongest magnetic field in the whole solar system and often has ultra violent auras at it's poles. It would take 1,00 Earths to fill Jupiter up. It has a diameter of 88,846 Miles. It takes 4,333 Earth days to orbit or almost 12 Earth years.

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