What are some interesting facts about Jupiter?

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Answer 1

the great red spot is jupiter's most outstanding surface feature. it was first observed more than 400 years ago and it is still there. it is a swirling mass of gas that resembles and behave like a hurricane. the edge of the great red spot circulatesate a speed of about 360 km per hour. the spot remains at the same distance from the equator but driftly slowly east and west. teh widest diameter of the great red spot is three times of the earth. its colo ir from brick red - slightly brown

Answer 2

Jupiter is 11x the diameter of the earthso it's easy to observe; It takes less than 4 hours to rotate once giving it a fast circulation. This fast circulation is what causes the hurricane like formations on Jupiter we call the Big Red Spot and Red Jr.. Jupiter actually has several hurricanes and we, on earth, tracked these hurricanes so that we could better predict our hurricanes here on earth. Jupiter is famous for its 4 famous satellites also known as the Galilean Lights: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. My favorite is Europa because its covered in a thick layer of ice and below the ice scientists expect that there is water... like a global ocean. As we all know water is what we believe is the key ingredient to most life forms, so there are a lot of people that believe there may be life under the surface of Europa!

Answer 3

A day lasts only 10 hours on Jupiter. Also the planet rotates faster at it's equator than it does at the poles. It has the second biggest magnetic field in the Solar System next to the Sun.

Answer 4

The first observed collision of two bodies not involving earth was with Jupiter. It was between Jupiter and comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994. This provided astronomers with important information as to the make-up of Jupiter's atmosphere, and also how it acts as a "vacuum" picking up space debris.

Answer 5

If Jupiter was 100 more massive than its current mass it would be a star! It's only lack of mass that prevented Jupiter from starting nuclear reactions in its core to become a star like our Sun.

Answer 6

first of all, there's no surface to stand on its made up of gas,
One of the most important facts about Jupiter is that, it is a vacuum cleaner of our solar system,

Jupiter's immense gravity acts as a cosmic vacuum cleaner, protecting the Earth from collisions with wayward comets.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter