PLANETARY
OCTOBER 27,2021
20 Hidden Facts Of Jupiter
These are the 20 hidden facts of Jupiter you should know.
- Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System, 300 times more massive than Earth.
- The name Jupiter was named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology, which ancient Greeks named it Zeus, the king of the Greek gods.
- The magnetic field of Jupiter is 14 times stronger than the Earth’s. It is the strongest magnetic field of any planet in the solar system.
- The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is actually a storm with size of a planet and has been around for centuries.
- So far Jupiter has 79 moons and the number is still counting. The are 53 named moons and another 26 are in the waiting list to get the official names.
- The average temperature in Jupiter is -145 degrees Celcius (234 degrees Fahrenheit), the planet is super cool, literally, even in its hottest weather.
- After the Sun, the Moon and Venus, Jupiter is one the brightest objects in the sky and one of the five planets able to be seen by naked eye.
- Jupiter’s four largest moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) are called the Galilean satellites because the Galilieo Galilei discovered them in 1610.
- Jupiter is a giant gas planet, like other gaseous planets Jupiter barely has a solid, rocky surface. It is surrounded by dense liquid hydrogen.
- The gravity at Jupiter’s surface is 2.5 times stronger than the gravity on Earth.
- There is only a small amount of water on Jupiter but it is in the form of water vapor in the cloud tops. Some moons of Jupiter have water or water ice in their surface or atmosphere.
- According to research, diamond rain falls on Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.
- Jupiter also has rings, it consist of 4 sets of rings : the halo ring, the main ring, the Amalthea gossamer ring, and the Thebe gossamer ring.
- New data reveals that temperature over the Great Red Spot is about 1.300 degrees Celcius (2.400 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Jupiter is called a failed star due to its same elements (hydrogen and helium) as is the Sun. Jupiter is not massive enough to have internal pressure and temperature necessary to lighten up the energy source.
- Study suggests that the estimated age of Jupiter is about 4,6 billion years old.
- Jupiter is also the fastest spinning planet in the Solar System.
- Jupiter has an axial tilt of only 3 degrees and it makes no significant difference between the seasons, it change mores slowly with each season is lasting about three years.
- Human has been studying Jupiter for more than 400 years and so far nine spacecrafts have visited the giant planet since 1973 and added our knowledge of the planet.
- The blue Jupiter’s pole indicates a confluence of invisible magnetic field lines entering Jupiter. It was discovered in 1994 and estimated that around hundreds and thousands of gigawatts of ultraviolet light are beamed into space from its north and south poles.
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