Thursday, 30 July 2015

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System - Jupiter


This is the king of our solar system. A truly gargantuan planet, its mass is that of the rest of the solar system COMBINED and consists entirely of gas. 

See the big red spot? That is a storm that is big enough to fit 3 entire earth’s inside it and has been raging for at least 350 years at this point. 

As if that wasn’t cool enough it has an ocean of metallic hydrogen in several of its layers, 67 moons, 4 rings, and spins so fast that it’s day is only 9 hours. This planet may just look like a giant ball of gas but when it gets down to it it really deserves to be the one named after the chief God.

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