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-Jupiter is the fifth planet from the

Sun and the largest in the Solar
System.

-It is a giant planet with a mass one-

thousandth that of the Sun, but
two-and-a-half times that of all the
other planets in the Solar System
combined.
-Jupiter and Saturn are
gas giants; the other
two giant planets, Uranus and
Neptune, are ice giants.

-It is named after the Roman god

Jupiter.
-Its atmosphere resembles that of
the sun, made up mostly of
hydrogen and helium, and with
four large moons and many
smaller moons in orbit around it,
Jupiter by itself forms a kind of
miniature solar system.
 All told, the immense volume of Jupiter could
hold more than 1,300 Earths!!
The colorful bands of Jupiter are arranged in
dark belts and light zones created by strong
east-west winds in the planet's upper
atmosphere traveling more than 400 mph (640
km/h). The white clouds in the zones are made
of crystals of frozen ammonia, while darker
clouds of other chemicals are found in the belts.
At the deepest visible levels are blue clouds. Far
from being static, the stripes of clouds change
over time. Inside the atmosphere, diamond rain
may fill the skies.
Far from being static, the stripes of clouds
change over time. Inside the atmosphere,
diamond rain may fill the skies.

-The most extraordinary feature on

Jupiter is undoubtedly the Great Red
Spot, a giant hurricane-like storm seen
for more than 300 years.
The Great Red Spot is a
giant, spinning storm in
Jupiter's atmosphere. It is
like a hurricane on Earth, but
it is much larger. Jupiter's
Great Red Spot is more than
twice the size of Earth!
Winds inside this storm
reach speeds of about 270
miles per hour.
-This is around 14 times stronger than
the magnetic field found on Earth –
the largest of any planet in the solar
system.

-A year on Jupiter is 4,331 days. Keep

in mind, though, that a day on
Jupiter is only 9 hours, 56 minutes –
less than half a day on Earth.
-In one of the moons, has more
volcanoes than any other planet in the
solar system. Ganymede is one of the
moons of the Jupiter and known as the
biggest moon in the Solar System

-Jupiter has more than 50 moons.

Four of the moons are the size of
planets.
 Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in our solar system.
After the Sun, the Moon and Venus, Jupiter is the
brightest and is one of five planets which can be seen by
naked eye from Earth.
 Jupiter has rings, a fact that surprised
scientists. The Voyager 1 expedition
discovered the rings in 1979. The thick rings
are made of dust and bits of rock.
 As shown in the diagram, the Gossamer Ring has two
parts: the Amalthea Gossamer Ring (closer to Jupiter)
and the Thebe Gossamer Ring. Saturn's rings are mostly
made of ice. Jupiter's rings are different - they are very
dark and difficult to see. They are made up of small bits
of dust.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and
the second-largest in the Solar System, after
Jupiter.
It is a gas giant with an average radius about
nine times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth
the average density of Earth, but with its larger
volume Saturn is over 95 times more massive
Saturn is named after the Roman god of
agriculture (Latin: Saturnus); its astronomical
symbol (♄) represents the god's sickle.
-Saturn has been known since prehistoric
times. Galileo was the first to observe it
with a telescope in 1610

-Saturn is the least dense of the planets;

its specific gravity (0.7) is less than that
of water.
-Like Jupiter, Saturn is about 75%
hydrogen and 25% helium with
traces of water, methane, ammonia
and "rock", similar to the composition
of the primordial Solar Nebula from
which the solar system was formed.
-Saturn is visibly flattened (oblate) when viewed
through a small telescope; its equatorial and
polar diameters vary by almost 10% (120,536 km
vs. 108,728 km).

-Saturn's interior is also similar to Jupiter's

consisting of a rocky core, a liquid metallic
hydrogen layer and a molecular hydrogen
layer. Traces of various ices are also present.
-Saturn's interior is probably composed
of a core of iron–nickel and rock (silicon
and oxygen compounds). This core is
surrounded by a deep layer of metallic
hydrogen, an intermediate layer of
liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, and
finally a gaseous outer layer. Saturn has
a pale yellow hue due to ammonia
crystals in its upper atmosphere
The rings of Saturn are the most extensive ring
system of any planet in the Solar System. They
consist of countless small particles, ranging
from m to m in size, that orbit about Saturn.
The ring particles are made almost entirely of
water ice, with a trace component of rocky
material.
 Saturn appears as one of the 5 planets visible with
the unaided eye. If Saturn is in the sky at night, you
can head outside and see it. To see the rings and the
ball of the planet itself, you’ll want to peer through a
telescope.
-Saturn has oval-shaped -The first
storms similar to astronomers thought
Jupiter’s. the rings were
moons.

-Saturn has 62 moons -Saturn’s upper

and %8 of them were atmosphere is
name. One of them is divided into bands of
called Titan known as clouds
the 2nd largest moon in
the Solar System
-Saturn is the -Saturn turns on its axis
flattest planet or a once every 10 hours and
flattened ball: Its 34 minutes giving it the
polar diameter is second-shortest day of
90% of its equatorial any of the solar
diameter, this is due system’s planets.
to its low density
and fast rotation. -Saturn is the least
dense planet in the
-Saturn orbits the Solar System
Sun once every 29.4
Earth years.