5. Jupiter’s mass is bigger more than
twice as the other planets’ masses
put together.
MERCURY
VENUS
EARTH
MARS
SATURN
URANUS
NEPTUNE
2,5 x
JUPITER
6. Jupiter rotates
once about every
10 hours –
A JOVIAN DAY,
but takes about
12 Earth years
to complete
one orbit of
the Sun –
A JOVIAN
YEAR!
7. Jupiter has no solid surface.
It’s a gas planet.
It’s composed of:
• 75 % hydrogen
• 24% helium
• <1% other (ammonia, methane,
water)
8. Jupiter’s atmosphere is the thickest of
all the planets of the solar–system.
Its atmospheric pressure is 10 times
higher than on Earth.
9. Jupiter’s outer layer is made of clouds
that are visible as characteristic
white, yellow, red, grey and brown
stripes.
10. Because of the rotation of clouds
of different gas composition,
Jupiter is known as the
stormy planet.
11. The biggest storm that has been
observed for about 300 hundred years
is known as: THE GREAT RED SPOT
12. Its winds speed up to 435 kilometres
per hour which is 2.5 faster than
category 5th hurricanes noticed on
Earth.
e.g. five times as big as Katrina
Hurricane in the USA in 2005.
21. Because of its gravity system Jupiter
protects the Earth from being striken
by the comets and astroids.
22. In Greek mythology Jupiter is known
as Zeus or Dias.
He has been known as the god of
heaven and storms,
but also the god of
men and the other gods.
23. Like Jupiter in the solar system,
Zeus has been keeping the world
safe,
forcing, both people and gods,
to respect
T H E R U L E S
