Jupiter
Storms and Weather
Appearance
Moons
Fun Facts
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Jupiter is the largest one of these in our Solar System.

Planet


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This giant storm has been raging for centuries.

The Great Red Spot

100

Jupiter is mostly made of this gas.

hydrogen

100

Jupiter has more than this many moons.

95 or 75

100

If Earth were a grape, Jupiter would be this size.

A basketball

200

Jupiter takes nearly 12 Earth years to do this.

Orbit the Sun

200

These white oval shapes are smaller storms on Jupiter.

Oval Storms


200

These bright white clouds are made of ammonia crystals.

Ammonia clouds

200

This is Jupiter’s largest moon.

Ganymede

200

Jupiter is named after the king of these ancient gods.

Roman gods

300

Jupiter spins once every this many Earth hours.

!0 hours


300

Jupiter’s fast rotation creates these powerful atmospheric features.

Strong winds and storm

300

The colourful stripes on Jupiter are called these.

Belts and zones

300

This moon may have a hidden ocean under its icy crust.

Europa

300

Jupiter has these faint features, even though many people think only Saturn has them.

Rings


400

This spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in 2016.

Juno

400

These long, windy bands circle the planet.

Jet streams

400

Jupiter has no solid one of these.

Surface

400

This volcanic moon is the most active in the Solar System.

Io

400

This glowing feature near Jupiter’s poles is caused by charged particles.

Aurora

500

Jupiter is classified as this type of planet.

Gas Giant

500

This is the approximate wind speed of Jupiter’s strongest storms (in km/h).

About 600km p/h

500

These swirling patterns form where different cloud bands meet.

Turbulent vortices

500

These four moons were discovered by Galileo in 1610.

The Galilean moons

500

Jupiter is so massive it contains this percentage of all the planets’ mass in the Solar System.

About 70%

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