All about JUPITER...
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It is approximately 143,000 kilometers (about 89,000 miles) wide at its equator. Jupiter is so large that all of the other planets in the solar system could fit inside it. More than 1,300 Earths would fit inside Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System . Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium , though helium comprises only about a tenth of the number of molecules. It may also have a rocky core of heavier elements, but like the other giant planets, Jupiter lacks a well-defined solid surface. Surrounding Jupiter is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere . Jupiter has at least 69 moons , including the four large Galilean moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede , the largest of these, has a d...
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