OrbitalMap a live chronicle of orbit

In the Solar System

Jupiter

The largest planet: more than twice the mass of everything else in orbit around the Sun combined, and eleven Earths across. It is hydrogen and helium with no surface to land on, banded by winds that run for centuries - the Great Red Spot is a storm wider than the Earth that has been watched for some 190 years and is shrinking. Its 90-odd moons include Ganymede, larger than Mercury, and Europa, whose ice covers an ocean.

Radius
71,492 km
Turns once in
9 h 55 m

Open this on the live map

Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.