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Jupiter
- This is a simple image taken
with my guide camera whilst takeing some dark frames with my main camera. Jupiter
is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largets planet
within the Solar Sysyten. It is two and a half times as massive as
all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter, along
with Saturn , Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas
giant.
The planet Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a small
proportion of helium; it may also have a rocky core of heavier
elements under high pressure. Because of its rapid rotation,
Jupiter's shape is that of an oblate spheroid
(it possesses a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator).
The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at
different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their
interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a
giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the seventeenth
century. Surrounding the planet is a faint planetary ring system
and a powerful magnetosphere. There are also at least 63 moons,
including the four large moons called the Galilean moons that were first
discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede
, the largest of these moons, has a diameter greater than that of
the planet Mercury.
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