facility with a population of 12,077.

Jupiter has an orbiting habitat and research

 

rotation of the planet.

systems created by a combination of convection and the rapid

pattern of belts and zones, which are planet-girdling wind

compounds, and rapid rotation.  Jupiter's atmosphere has a

having no solid surface, a thick atmosphere of hydrogen

of the solar system.  It is totally unlike the terrestrial planets,

ring, and radiation belts, is the most complex and varied member

a mean distance of 777 million km.  Jupiter, with its satellites,

     The largest of the planets and 5th in distance from the sun at

(0.241 Earth's Density)

1.33 g/cc

(10.8 Earth's Diameter)

138,450 km

(318.1 Earth's Mass)

1.901 E 30 grams

0.0485

778,363,597 km

2.64 Earth's Gravity

130 K

11.86 years

 

patron of the Roman state.

brother of Juno, and

pantheon, husband and

The supreme god of the