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Jupiter Planet

Filed under: Geography Universe on 2021-07-21 18:28:56
It is called Outer planet.
# It is composed mostly of gas and liquid swirling in complex patterns with no solid surface.

# Jupiter’s four large moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto), called the Galilean satellites because Galileo discovered them.

# Ganymede is the largest natural satellite (5,268 km in diameter) in this solar system and is larger than Mercury, and three times larger than the earth’s Moon (3,474 km in diameter, the fifth largest moon).

# It is the third-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus and the fourth brightest object in the sky after the Sun, the Moon and Venus.

# Because of its rapid rotation (once every 10 hours), the planet’s shape is that of an oblate spheroid (slight bulge at the equator).

# The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands, resulting in turbulence and storms.

# The latest probe to visit Jupiter is Juno.
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