All planets orbit around the sun. The planet’s core is mainly made of rock. Less than half of its surface has been mapped by scientists on Earth. Jupiter has the strongest magnetosphere of all other planets, nearly 20,000 times that of Earth. Note the Sun is not to scale and would be many times larger. Uranium is nicknamed “grandfather of Jupiter.”. This line -- between a gas giant and a brown dwarf -- defines the most massive planet.

Saturn: the Second Largest Planet in Our Solar System, Venus: the Hottest Planet in the Solar System. Jupiter's three rings came as a surprise when NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered them around the planet's equator in 1979.

The planet is 1,424,600,000 kilometers away from the Sun. Here is a rundown on the 9 planets of the solar system: Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, approximately 3000 miles (4850 km) in diameter, hardly larger than the moon. Uranus and Venus are the only two planets out of the eight known planets that follow a clockwise path while orbiting around the Sun.

Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. Jupiter has 63 known moons, but four are large enough to be of note; Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years. Venus rotates relatively slowly. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)). Space is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. The planets in our solar system are each very unique for various reasons. Read about how Voyager 2 changed our perception of, This year, we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact with Jupiter, a celestial collision that. Their names were drawn from the Iliad, Homer's epic about the Trojan War. In fact, it accounts for 99% of the solar systems’ mass. The surface is mostly covered by iron-rich volcanic rock.