Jupiter

 Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. 

Information

Surface area: 61.42 billion km²

Radius: 69,911 km

Orbital period: 12 years

Mass: 1.898 × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕)

Distance from Sun: 778.5 million km

Gravity: 24.79 m/s²

Moons: Europa, Ganymede, Io, Callisto, Amalthea, Himalia, MORE

Colors

Jupiter is a giant gas planet with an outer atmosphere that is mostly hydrogen and helium with small amounts of water droplets, ice crystals, ammonia crystals, and other elements. Clouds of these elements create shades of white, orange, brown and red.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere and Weather: Jupiter's extremely dense and relatively dry atmosphere is composed of a mixture of hydrogen, helium and much smaller amounts of methane and ammonia. The same mixture of elements which made Jupiter also made the Sun.

Core

According to most theories, Jupiter has a dense core of heavy elements that formed during the early solar system. The solid core of ice, rock, and metal grew from a nearby collection of debris, icy material, and other small objects such as the many comets and asteroids that were zipping around four billion years ago.

Directions

West

Mercury will be close to the Sun, over in the East, and Jupiter will be over in the West, with Venus, Saturn, and Mars between the two.