ESA - Facts about Jupiter - European Space Agency Quick-look facts about Jupiter: the largest gas giant in the Solar System Diameter: 142 984 km (11 times that of Earth) Mass and volume: Jupiter is more than twice as massive as all other Solar System planets combined, and 318 times as massive as Earth 1321 Earths could fit within a Jupiter-sized sphere
Jupiter Facts - Science@NASA As a gas giant, Jupiter doesn’t have a true surface The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Jupiter, it wouldn’t be able to fly through unscathed either
Atmosphere of Jupiter - Wikipedia The scale height sh is defined as sh = RT (Mg j), where R = 8 31 J mol K is the gas constant, M ≈ 0 0023 kg mol is the average molar mass in the Jovian atmosphere, [3] T is temperature and g j ≈ 25 m s 2 is the gravitational acceleration at the surface of Jupiter
The gas giant Jupiter - Phys. org But, being a gas giant, Jupiter has a relatively low density – 1 326 g cm 3 – which is less than one quarter of Earth's This means that while Jupiter's volume is equivalent to about 1,321
Jupiter - Gas Giant, Moons, Orbit | Britannica Jupiter - Gas Giant, Moons, Orbit: Jupiter has an equatorial diameter of about 143,000 km (88,900 miles) and orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 778 million km (483 million miles) The table shows additional physical and orbital data for Jupiter
How big is Jupiter? | Space Known as a gas giant, Jupiter is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, according to NASA It weighs in at 1 9 x 10 27 kilograms Although it is significantly more massive than Earth, it is
Planet Jupiter | Facts, Images, Atmosphere | GO ASTRONOMY Jupiter is the fifth of nine planets in our solar system and is is one of the outer "gas giant" planets Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and only Venus (and the Moon) are brighter in the night sky
Jupiter: An Introduction - New Space Economy Despite its enormous size, Jupiter has a low average density of 1 33 grams per cubic centimeter, reflecting its predominantly gaseous composition The planet is classified as a gas giant due to its lack of a solid surface and its composition, which is primarily hydrogen and helium
Jupiter - The largest planet and gas giant in our solar system. Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium (by numbers of atoms, 75 25% by mass) with traces of methane, water, ammonia and "rock" This is very close to the composition of the primordial Solar Nebula from which the entire solar system was formed
The Density of Exoplanet Types: What Are They Made Of Jupiter and Saturn — the gas giants, primarily composed of hydrogen and helium — have relatively low densities despite their colossal sizes: Density of Jupiter is 1 33 g cm³; Saturn, as we mentioned earlier, is even less dense (0 69 g cm³) The same applies for the density of exoplanetary gas giants (aka Hot Jupiters), which are usually