Jupiter

• Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
• It is the fifth planet from the Sun.
• Most of Jupiter’s volume is made up of gases and ice with only a small rocky core.
• The atmosphere is composer of mainly hydrogen in gaseous and liquid forms together with helium, methane and ammonia.
• Jupiter has sixteen natural satellites or moons and takes about 12 years to revolve once around the Sun.
• Jupiter rotates so fast, once every ten hours, that it creates strong winds and great storms which persist over most of the planet.
• Therefore, Jupiter is the planet which has shortest day in the Solar System.