PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM: JUPITER

The Planet Jupiter is the LARGEST PLANET in our Solar System. Jupiter has at least 63 moons and they include: Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede. Planet Jupiter has a diameter of 85,788 miles and a temperature ranging from -163° C to -121° C.It is approximately 466 million miles away from the sun and its atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium. It rotates on its own axis in 9 hours and 55 minutes in Earth time and it revolves  around the sun in 12 Earth years. Jupiter has three thin rings around its equator. They are much fainter than the rings of Saturn. Jupiter can’t ever become a Star.Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in the Solar System. 

                            It is considered highly unlikely that there is any Earth-like life on Jupiter, as there is only a small amount of water in the atmosphere and any possible solid surface deep within Jupiter would be under extraordinary pressures. In 1976, before the Voyager missions, it was hypothesized that ammonia or water-based life could evolve in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. This hypothesis is based on the ecology of terrestrial seas which have simple photosynthetic plankton at the top level, fish at lower levels feeding on these creatures, and marine predators which hunt the fish.