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Nov. 30, 2018: This series of images from NASA's Juno spacecraft captures changing cloud formations across Jupiter's southern hemisphere. A cloud in the shape of a dolphin appears to be swimming through the cloud bands along the South South Temperate Belt.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift/Seán Doran

This sequence of images was taken between 2:26 p.m. and 2:46 p.m. PDT (5:26 p.m. and 5:56 p.m. EDT) on Oct. 29, 2018, as the spacecraft performed its 16th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno's altitude ranged from about 11,400 to 31,700 miles (18,400 to 51,000 kilometers) from the planet's cloud tops, at approximately 32 to 59 degrees south latitude.

Citizen scientists Brian Swift and Seán Doran created this image using data from the spacecraft's JunoCam imager.

The fifth planet from the Sun, and the most massive in our solar system, Jupiter has a long history surprising scientists-all the way back to 1610 when Galileo Galilei found the first moons beyond Earth. That discovery changed the way we see the universe. Explore Jupiter ›

Ten Things to Know About Jupiter

Did You Know

Did You Know?

There are no rockets powerful enough to hurl a spacecraft into the outer solar system and beyond. In 1962, scientists calculated how to use Jupiter's intense gravity to hurl spacecraft into the farthest regions of the solar system. We've been traveling farther and faster ever since.

Pop Culture

The biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter also has a large presence in pop culture, including many movies, TV shows, video games and comics. Jupiter was a notable destination in the Wachowski siblings' science fiction spectacle Jupiter Ascending, while various Jovian moons provide settings for Cloud Atlas, Futurama, Power Rangers, and Halo, among many others. In Men in Black when Agent J-played by Will Smith-mentions he thought one of his childhood teachers was from Venus, Agent K-played by Tommy Lee Jones-replies that she is actually from one of Jupiter's moons.

Kid-Friendly Jupiter

Kid-Friendly Jupiter

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. It's similar to a star, but it never got big enough to start burning.

Jupiter is covered in swirling cloud stripes. It has big storms like the Great Red Spot, which has been going for hundreds of years.

Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn't have a solid surface, but it may have a solid inner core about the size of Earth. Jupiter also has rings, but they're too faint to see very well.

Visit NASA Space Place for more kid-friendly facts.

NASA Space Place: All About Jupiter ›

Resources

Juno Spacecraft Paper Model

Solar-powered Juno is trekking to Jupiter to help us understand how giant planets form.

More to Explore

Galileo was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.

Pioneer 10 was first through the asteroid belt and first to Jupiter.

With a few materials and a few steps, you can build your own glasses to view 3D images.

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Nov. 30, 2018: This series of images from NASA's Juno spacecraft captures changing cloud formations across Jupiter's southern hemisphere. A cloud in the shape of a dolphin appears to be swimming through the cloud bands along the South South Temperate Belt. This sequence of images was taken between 2:26 p.m.

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Earth overtakes Jupiter every 398.9  days as it orbits the sun

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the only planet whose barycenter  with the sun lies outside the volume  of the sun , though by only 7% of the sun radius.

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Is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium.

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Jupiter is the largest planet it's so big that other planet could fit in it.

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The length of the year is 12 Earth years for Jupiter.

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Jupiter is one of four gas giants

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The  great red spot is more  than twice the size as Earth.

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The length of  the day is 9.8 hours.

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Jupiter has a  very deep atmosphere with high and low clouds

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Jupiter has a storm called a  Great  Red Spot

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Jupiter  rotates so quickly that it's day is 10 hours long

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Diameter is (88,844 million mi)

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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun

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Jupiter has at least 63 moons .

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The average temperature is -170 degree C. (-274 degree F)