Jupiter

Basic Facts:
Moons: 63

Period of Rotation: 9 hours and 48 minutes

Period of Revolution: 12 years

Inner/Outer planet: Outer

Terrestrial/gaseous planet: Gaseous

Distance from Sun: 460 million miles (741 million kilometers)

Atmospheric composition: 90% hydrogen and 10% helium

Core composition: liquid metallic hydrogen

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Gravity: 2.64 x Earth's gravity

Tilt of axis: 3.1 degrees

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Missions: Pioneer II, Voyager I, Voyager II, and Galileo

Jupiter is most famous for it's feature, the Great Red Spot, which is a storm that has lasted for centuries and shows no sign of stopping.  The Great Red Spot is 24, 860 miles across.  Jupiter, in Roman mythology, is the god of the sky and the king of all the gods.  Jupiter has three, very thin rings that can only be seen when the planet passes over the Sun.  Jupiter is also the largest planet in the solar system.  It is so big, that all the other planets could fit in side of it, if it were hollow.