What are some interesting facts about Jupiter?
• Jupiter is the largest planet • All the other planets could fit in it plus space left • Jupiter is the 5th planet from the sun • Jupiter is one of the Gas Giants • People can’t live on Jupiter • There are colored clouds • Jupiter spins the fastest (It spins around in under ten hours) • There is a faint ring of dust around Jupiter • The large red spot on Jupiter is a tropical storm • The red spot on the surface of Jupiter has been there since the time that Galileo Galilei first observed the planet with a telescope. • As it is made entirely out of gas, technically it has no surface. • It was named after the primary Roman god (Zeus of Greece). • Apart from Earth, one of it’s moons is theorized to have the only other source of liquid water in the our Solar System. • One of its moons is covered in a sea of natural gas. • One of its moons is the only volcanically active moon in the Solar System.
