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Jupiter was the monarch of the gods in Roman mythology — a fitting title for the largest of the planets. In a similar kind, the very old Greeks entitled the planet after Zeus, the monarch of the Greek pantheon.

Jupiter helped revolutionize the way we glimpsed the universe and us in 1610, when Galileo found out Jupiter's four large moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, now known as the Galilean moons. This was the first time celestial bodies were not glimpsed circling the Earth, foremost support of the Copernican outlook that Earth was not the center of the cosmos.

Physical Characteristics of the Planet Jupiter

Jupiter is the most huge planet in our solar scheme, more than twice as huge as all the other satellites combined, and had it been about 80 times more massive, it would have actually become a celebrity instead of a planet. Its air resembles that of the sun, made up mostly of hydrogen and helium, and with four large moons and many lesser moons in orbit round it, Jupiter by itself forms a kind of miniature solar scheme. All notified, the immense capacity of Jupiter could contain more than 1,300 Earths.

The colorful musicians of Jupiter are organised in dark bands and lightweight zones created by powerful east-west winds in the planet's upper air traveling more than 400 miles per hour (640 kilometers per hour). The white clouds in the zones are made of crystals of iced ammonia, while darker clouds of other chemicals are discovered in the bands. At the deepest evident grades are blue clouds.

The most exceptional feature on Jupiter is undoubtedly the Great Red location, a giant hurricane-like gale glimpsed for more than 300 years. At its broadest, the large Red location is three times the diameter of the soil, and its brim spins counterclockwise round its center at a speed of about 225 miles (360 kilometers) per hour. The color of the storm, which generally varies from brick red to somewhat dark, may arrive from small allowances of sulfur and phosphorus in the ammonia crystals in Jupiter's clouds. Every now and afresh, the large Red Spot appears to fade entirely.

Jupiter's gargantuan magnetic area is the strongest of all the planets in the solar system at nearly 20,000 times the power of Earth's. It tricks electrically charged particles in an strong band of electrons and other electrically charged particles that frequently blasts the planet's moons and rings with a grade of emission more than 1,000 times the lethal grade for a human, impairing even heavily-shielded spacecraft such as NASA's Galileo search. The magnetosphere of Jupiter, which is comprised of these areas and particles, swells out some 600,000 to 2 million miles (1 million to 3 million kilometers) in the direction of the sun and tapers to a follow extending more than 600 million miles (1 billion kilometers) behind Jupiter.

Jupiter spins much quicker than any other planet, taking a little under 10 hours to entire a turn on its axis, compared with 24 hours for soil. This fast spin really makes Jupiter swell at the equator and make flat at the beams, making the planet about 7 per hundred broader at the equator than at the beams.

Jupiter broadcasts radio swell strong sufficient to detect on Earth. These arrive in two types — strong bursts that happen when Io, the nearest of Jupiter's large moons, passes through certain districts of Jupiter's magnetic area, and