Jupiter
gas giant · largest planet
5.37 AU from Earth
Over twice the mass of all the other planets combined. The Great Red Spot is a storm wider than Earth that has raged for at least 190 years.
- radius 71,492 km · a day lasts 9 h 56 min
- winds up to 600 km/h between the bands
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
open Jupiter in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System
- distance
- 5.32 AU from the Sun
- size
- 143,000 km across
- orbits
- the Sun
- orbiting it
- Io · Europa · Ganymede · Callisto · Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
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- Uranus ice giant
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- Apollo 16 landing site at Descartes, on the Moon
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