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Bookmark or Share- NASA’s Juno Mission Uncovers Heart of Jovian Moon’s Volcanic RageIo is extremely close to mammoth Jupiter, and its elliptical orbit whips it around the gas giant once every 42.5 hours. As the distance varies, so does Jupiter’s gravitational pull, which leads to the moon being relentlessly squeezed. The result: an extreme case of tidal flexing — friction from tidal forces that generates internal heat.
- Jupiter | Facts, Moons, Rings, Temperature, Size, & Color | BritannicaJupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system and the fifth in distance from the Sun. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; only the Moon, Venus, and sometimes Mars are more brilliant. Jupiter takes nearly 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and it rotates once about every 10 hours.
- Jupiter Fact Sheet - NSSDCAJupiter Observational Parameters Discoverer: Unknown Discovery Date: Prehistoric Distance from Earth Minimum (10 6 km) 588.5 Maximum (10 6 km) 968.5 Apparent diameter from Earth Maximum (seconds of arc) 50.1 Minimum (seconds of arc) 30.5 Mean values at opposition from Earth Distance from Earth (10 6 km) 628.81 Apparent diameter (seconds of arc) 46.9 Apparent visual magnitude -2.7 Maximum ...
- Jupiter - NASA ScienceJupiter is a world of extremes. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. If Jupiter was a hollow shell, 1,000 Earths could fit inside. Jupiter also is the oldest planet, forming from the dust and gases left over from the Sun's formation 4.5 billion years ago.
- Jupiter - WikipediaJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
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