It is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar system

Called the Lord of Heavens

It is a gas giant with mass one thousandth that of the Sun but two and a half times the mass of all other planets in the
solar system combined

Jupiter was named after the Roman god who was the leader of all gods. In Roman mythology Jupiter was the biggest and
most powerful god, and because of these characteristics and its size, the planet was given that same name.

Jupiter has a diameter of about 142800 kilometers which is more than 11 time the diameter of Earth. It’s volume is over
1300 times the volume of Earth. This means that Jupiter is so big that over 1000 Earths could fit inside of it.

There is no single person who is credited with the discovery of Jupiter. Jupiter is one of the five planets that can be seen
in the night sky without using a telescope or binoculars. Galileo was the first to observe Jupiter with a telescope, as
Jupiter can be seen with the naked eye, the ancients probably the ones who discovered it. Jupiter can be seen from
planet earth, so it is hard to tell who actually saw it first! We will never know when Jupiter was discovered.

Jupiter is primarily composed of gaseous and liquid matter. H and He, largest of four gas giants, contains also methane,
water vapor, ammonia and silicon based compounds.

It has about 79 moons, the biggest of them are the four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede

Jupiter’s great red spot is a huge long lasting storm in the atmosphere of the southern hemisphere of Jupiter. It is an
anti-cyclone storm, much lige a gargantuan hurruicane its color is actually pink to orange. Robert Hooke was the scientist
who discovered the great red spot of Jupiter in 1664.

One Jupiter year last 12 earth years, one Jupiter day lasts 10 hours