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| The diameter is 88,846 miles, and it volume is 1,300 Earths, it is also the biggest planet in the solar system. |
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| How fast does Jupiter rotate? |
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| Jupiter makes one complete rotation in under 10 hours. |
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| Jupiter has vast winds that move downward, it also has huge storm winds. |
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| Jupiters rings are small, dim, and made of dust. |
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| How many moons does Jupiter have? |
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| Jupiter officialy has 16 moons that have been named, and the four largest moons names are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. |
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| Is Jupiter surrounded by anything other than rings? |
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| Jupiter is also surrounded by a magnetic field that is larger and much stronger than Earth's. |
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| What is the temperature of Jupiter? |
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| Jupiters cloud layer is very cold, but many, many miles below the cloud layer it is hotter than the Sun's surface! |
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| Jupiters rings are brown, yellow, and orange, and there are white spots, there is also the big red spot that doesn't stay red. |
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| Has a comet ever tried to hit Jupiter? |
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| There was a comet named, Shoemaker-Levy 9, that tried to hit in 1994, but the comet came so close that Jupiters powerful gravity broke it up into 21 pieces. |
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| Jupiter is mostly made of hydrogen and helium. |
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| What was Jupiter like many years ago? |
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| Many years ago Jupiter might have glowed just like a star, it is believed that, many years ago, it probably gave off more energy than it does now. |
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| How close is Jupiter to the Sun? |
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| Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun. |
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| How long does it take Jupiter to orbit the Sun? |
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| Every 12 years, Jupiter orbits the Sun. |
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| What does Jupiter look like through a telescope? |
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| If you look through a telescope, Jupiter looks like an a disk of light. |
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| What is Jupiter's atmosphere like? |
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| Jupiter's atmosphere has methane, ammonia, small amounts of water, and it is made out of hydrogen and helium. |
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