If you measure the diameter through the poles it is 9, km smaller at , km. Solely based on diameter, Jupiter is The diameter of Jupiter is amazingly large for our Solar System, but is easily eclipsed by some extrasolar planets.
According to Dr. Sean Raymond at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy at the University of Colorado the largest terrestrial rocky like Earth planets can be up to 10 times the size of Earth.
As of this time August, the largest gas giant known is TrES However, its rapid rotation — it spins once every 9. In contrast, the diameter at the poles is only 83, miles , km. This stretched shape is known as an oblate spheroid. If you were to walk around the equator of Jupiter, you would travel , miles , km , over 10 times the distance around Earth's center line. Because Jupiter is made of gas , mostly, its surface is considered uniform. More recently, three smaller ovals merged to form the Little Red Spot, about half the size of its larger cousin.
Anticyclones, which rotate in the opposite direction, are colder at the top but warmer at the bottom. The findings also indicate these storms are far taller than expected, with some extending 60 miles kilometers below the cloud tops and others, including the Great Red Spot, extending over miles kilometers. This surprising discovery demonstrates that the vortices cover regions beyond those where water condenses and clouds form, below the depth where sunlight warms the atmosphere.
With their gravity data, the Juno team was able to constrain the extent of the Great Red Spot to a depth of about miles kilometers below the cloud tops. Belts and Zones In addition to cyclones and anticyclones, Jupiter is known for its distinctive belts and zones — white and reddish bands of clouds that wrap around the planet. Strong east-west winds moving in opposite directions separate the bands.
Juno previously discovered that these winds, or jet streams, reach depths of about 2, miles roughly 3, kilometers. Researchers are still trying to solve the mystery of how the jet streams form. But at deeper levels, below the water clouds, the opposite is true — which reveals a similarity to our oceans. Over time, mission scientists determined these atmospheric phenomena are extremely resilient, remaining in the same location.
Juno data also indicates that, like hurricanes on Earth, these cyclones want to move poleward, but cyclones located at the center of each pole push them back. This balance explains where the cyclones reside and the different numbers at each pole.
The Jovian magnetosphere is the region of space influenced by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field. It balloons , to 2 million miles 1 to 3 million kilometers toward the Sun seven to 21 times the diameter of Jupiter itself and tapers into a tadpole-shaped tail extending more than million miles 1 billion kilometers behind Jupiter, as far as Saturn's orbit.
Jupiter's enormous magnetic field is 16 to 54 times as powerful as that of the Earth. It rotates with the planet and sweeps up particles that have an electric charge. Near the planet, the magnetic field traps swarms of charged particles and accelerates them to very high energies, creating intense radiation that bombards the innermost moons and can damage spacecraft.
Jupiter's magnetic field also causes some of the solar system's most spectacular aurorae at the planet's poles. Introduction Jupiter is the fifth planet from our Sun and is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system — more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.
A 3D model of Jupiter, a gas giant planet. Mocha Swirls in Jupiter's Turbulent Atmosphere. This page showcases our resources for those interested in learning more about Jupiter.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has a diameter of about 87, miles. And even Jupiter is tiny compared to the Sun, which is roughly ten times wider than Jupiter, at about , miles. Like other gas giants , Jupiter's heavy mass and cold location farther from the sun have helped it hold on to the hydrogen and helium gas that make up its thick atmosphere.
Some other things in the solar system are on the smaller side. Brady also created this image of North America on Mars , which gives you a sense of how we might feel a little cramped if we tried to move everything on Earth to a colony on the Red Planet.
Mars is only about half as wide as Earth is. And its smaller mass means that it produces less gravity, so everything weighs less there. And why is it red? Because of iron oxide in its sands. Meanwhile, Reddit user boredboarder8 created this overlay of the continental US on the moon. The moon has a diameter about 40 percent that of Earth, and you can just about wrap the US on one side.
The moon is actually a pretty impressive size considering that it was most likely created from a collision between Earth and another heavenly body about 4. That is one big hunk of junk.
And like Mars, the moon's lesser mass means less gravity than Earth.
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