# Jupiter

*In the Solar System*

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 | 792,678,921 km (+49,440 km/d) |
| From the Earth | 921,764,051 km (-1,118,254 km/d) |
| A signal takes | 51 min |

Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of 2026-09-05, changing at the rate given beside each. The interpolation itself is good to a few kilometres; what ages these figures is the date, not the arithmetic.

## Elsewhere

- On the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?world=solar-system&focus=jupiter
- This object as a page: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/jupiter/
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt