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Documentary about Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets.When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.94, making it on average the third-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. Mars can briefly match Jupiter's brightness at certain points in its orbit.Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium; it may also have a rocky core of heavier elements. Because of its rapid rotation, Jupiter's shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it possesses a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator). The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century when it was first seen by telescope.Surrounding the planet is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. There are also at least 63 moons, including the four large moons called the Galilean moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede, the largest of these moons, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury.Jupiter is 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined—this is so massive that its barycenter with the Sun lies above the Sun's surface at 1.068 solar radii from the Sun's center. Although this planet dwarfs the Earth with a diameter 11 times as great, it is considerably less dense. Jupiter's volume is equal to 1,321 Earths, yet the planet is only 318 times as massive.Jupiter is thought to consist of a dense core with a mixture of elements, a surrounding layer of liquid metallic hydrogen with some helium, and an outer layer predominantly of molecular hydrogen.Jupiter has the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, spanning over 5000 km in altitude.As Jupiter has no surface, the base of its atmosphere is usually considered to be the point at which atmospheric pressure is equal to 10 bars, or ten times surface pressure on Earth.Jupiter is perpetually covered with clouds composed of ammonia crystals and possibly ammonium hydrosulfide. The clouds are located in the tropopause and are arranged into bands of different latitudes, known as tropical regions.The best known feature of Jupiter is the Great Red Spot, a persistent anticyclonic storm located 22° south of the equator that is larger than Earth.Jupiter has 63 named natural satellites. Of these, 47 are less than 10 kilometres in diameter and have only been discovered since 1975. The four largest moons, known as the "Galilean moons", are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.upiter has been called the Solar System's vacuum cleaner,because of its immense gravity well and location near the inner Solar System. It receives the most frequent comet impacts of the Solar System's planets.
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JUPITER The Giant Planet # part 4 of 5by HubbleEyes14,051 views
4:10 watch out guys, we got a BIG bad ass planet over here!
thegatosk8 12 hours ago
ma lovely giant planetttttt
reyhanyusuf1 1 month ago
How could rain travel faster on Jupiter if there's no water?
JVThrillz 1 month ago
guy says rain is falling on jupiter..
they also say jupiter is fully made up of gas..
conclusion - scientists are fucked up !
geishathor 2 months ago
y are they messing with the queen
LeDavidBeasley 2 months ago
leave jupiter alone
LeDavidBeasley 2 months ago
leave the religious talk out of a science show.
suddenrushsarge 2 months ago
@djtrixen hella ,,, lol
Asleepymystikal 3 months ago
Lmao, Jupiter is Earth on steroids
Footrockofdoom 3 months ago
@theFunnierWill211187 what you believe is based or should be based on reasoning and evidence--this is the very foundation of even the word intelligence. If someone 'believes' that humans were roaming the earth with dinosaurs despite all that we have come to know the last several hundred years then, I am sorry but they are not intelligent and it would be immoral to respect that persons beliefs just as though its immoral to respect a racists beliefs. Respect facts.
pawndominance1 5 months ago