Jupiter
The largest planet, a giant of gas whose four biggest moons show in steady binoculars as points of light in a line.
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Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Diameter
- 142,984 km
- Distance from the Sun
- 778.5 million km on average
- A year there lasts
- 4,331 Earth days, about 11.9 years
- A day there, from noon to noon
- 9.9 hours
- Average temperature
- −110 °C
- Known moons
- 95, and a system of rings
Figures from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NSSDCA fact sheets. All sources