🪐 Planet
Jupiter
The biggest planet, with a storm larger than Earth.
- Size
- 140,000 km across, 11 times wider than Earth
- A day lasts
- 9.9 hours
- A year lasts
- 11.9 Earth years
- Moons
- 115
- Average temperature
- −110 °C
- Gravity
- 2.5× Earth’s
- From the Sun
- 780 million km
📍 Where is it now?
Seen against the stars of Leo, 830 million km from Earth. Its light takes 46 minutes to reach us.
Did you know?
- More than 1,300 Earths could fit inside it.
- The Great Red Spot is a storm that has been raging for at least 150 years.
Photographed or visited by
Voyager 1
The furthest human object, still calling home after 49 years.
Voyager 2
The only spacecraft that has ever visited Uranus and Neptune.
Galileo
Fourteen years at Jupiter, and a probe dropped into its clouds.
Juno
Diving between Jupiter’s radiation belts to see inside it.
Compare Jupiter with EarthSide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of JupiterStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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All of solar system
Mercury
The smallest planet, and the closest to the Sun.
Venus
The hottest planet, hidden under thick clouds.
Earth
Our home, the only world known to have life.
Mars
The red planet, with the tallest volcano in the solar system.
Saturn
The ringed giant, light enough to float in water.
Uranus
The ice giant that rolls around the Sun on its side.