In the Solar System · tracked live
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
- Around the equator
- 449,197 km
- Mass
- 1.9 x 10^27 kg
- Compared with the Earth
- 318 ×
- Turns once in
- 9 h 55 m
- From the Sun
- 794,506,961 km (+48,109 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 862,600,093 km (-2,003,330 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 48 min
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
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.