Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Jupiter - Navo

  • Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System.
  • It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth of that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is a gas giant, along with Saturn. Uranus and Neptune are ice giants.
  • Jupiter is mostly composed with hydrogen and helium.
  • Jupiter has been explored on several occasions by robotic spacecraft, most notably during the early Pioneer and Voyager flyby missions and later by the Galileo orbiter.
  • The most recent probe to visit Jupiter was the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft in late February 2007.



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