Secretes of Planet: Jupiter

          The Great Jupiter

The Jupiter is the fifth planet and the biggest planet of our solar system. It is 1000x larger than the earth means Jupiter can fit 1000 earth in it. It has 63 moons making its own solar system in orbit of Jupiter. It is thegreat giant planet made up of gas mainly Hydrogen and Helium.Its is also called the gas giant. The core of Jupiter consist of molten gasesin liquid form. Temperature is about 35500°C of its core which more than surface of sun and molten lava of earth and 145°C of its outer surface.The pressure is also much higher than earth. Its is 10x higher than earth.Galileo space craft observed the winds and storm of Jupiter at speed on 600km/pH. who can forget about great red spot at the equator of Jupiter which is present more than 100 years. The great red spot is a great tornado or cyclonelike something. Diameter of dark spot is about 2,000 km. Its has very strong magnetic field. This planet is covered with clouds and lightening storms.But still there many mysteries of planet Jupiter which we don't know. Scientist are still working on this project with satellites images and biggest

telescope of earth. And even NASA is going to send a robot controlled spacecraft in 10 years.

Moons of Jupiter

The Great red spot of Jupiter

  

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