Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest one of these in our Solar System.
Planet
This giant storm has been raging for centuries.
The Great Red Spot
Jupiter is mostly made of this gas.
hydrogen
Jupiter has more than this many moons.
95 or 75
If Earth were a grape, Jupiter would be this size.
A basketball
Jupiter takes nearly 12 Earth years to do this.
Orbit the Sun
These white oval shapes are smaller storms on Jupiter.
Oval Storms
These bright white clouds are made of ammonia crystals.
Ammonia clouds
This is Jupiter’s largest moon.
Ganymede
Jupiter is named after the king of these ancient gods.
Roman gods
Jupiter spins once every this many Earth hours.
!0 hours
Jupiter’s fast rotation creates these powerful atmospheric features.
Strong winds and storm
The colourful stripes on Jupiter are called these.
Belts and zones
This moon may have a hidden ocean under its icy crust.
Europa
Jupiter has these faint features, even though many people think only Saturn has them.
Rings
This spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in 2016.
Juno
These long, windy bands circle the planet.
Jet streams
Jupiter has no solid one of these.
Surface
This volcanic moon is the most active in the Solar System.
Io
This glowing feature near Jupiter’s poles is caused by charged particles.
Aurora
Jupiter is classified as this type of planet.
Gas Giant
This is the approximate wind speed of Jupiter’s strongest storms (in km/h).
About 600km p/h
These swirling patterns form where different cloud bands meet.
Turbulent vortices
These four moons were discovered by Galileo in 1610.
The Galilean moons
Jupiter is so massive it contains this percentage of all the planets’ mass in the Solar System.
About 70%