CONTENTS MEET JUPITER 4 THE BIGGEST PLANET 6 A GAS GIANT 8 ORBIT AND SPIN 12 APPEARANCE AND ATMOSPHERE 14 MAGNETIC FIELD 16 JUPITER’S RINGS 18 JUPITER’S MOONS 20 EXPLORING JUPITER 24 LIFE ON JUPITER 28 GLOSSARY 30 FOR MORE INFORMATION 31 INDEX 32
4 MEET JUPITER Our solar system is made up of the sun and everything that orbits or circles around it Other than the sun the largest bodies of the solar system are eight planets includ ing our planet Earth Our solar system also includes smaller objects such as dwarf planets asteroids comets and moons Counting out from the sun Jupiter is the fifth of the eight planets Earth is the third Jupiter is more than five times farther from the sun than Earth is Jupiter is also You can see Jupiterʼs colorful stripes in this image of the planet which was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on January 9 1979
Jupiter
Learn about Jupiter’s orbit and rotation, rings, atmosphere, and moons.
