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Jove is the 5sth planet from the sun and the biggest in our solar system. Jove is basically Jupiter but has a different name so I will call it Jupiter. Jupiter has 63 moons, and is a gas giant. Jupiter is surrounded by the asteroid belt and Saturn. Jupiter has 3 rings, Halo, Main, and Gossamer. The rings are made of dust not ice like Saturn's.

The Great Red Spot has been seen by Earthly observers for more than 300 years. The Great Red Spot is an oval about 12,000 by 25,000 km, big enough to hold two Earths. Other smaller but similar spots have been known for decades. Infrared observations and the direction of its rotation indicate that the Great Red Spot is a high-pressure region whose cloud tops are significantly higher and colder than the surrounding regions. Similar structures have been seen on Saturn and Neptune. It is not known how such structures can persist for so long.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Its diameter is 88,846 miles, more than 11 times that of Earth, and about one-tenth that of the sun. It would take more than 1,000 Earths to fill up the volume of Jupiter. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter appears brighter than most stars. It is usually the second brightest planet -- after Venus.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. Its mean distance from the sun is about 483,780,000 miles, more than five times Earth's distance. Ancient astronomers named Jupiter after the king of the Roman gods. Astronomers have studied Jupiter with telescopes based on Earth and aboard artificial satellites in orbit around Earth. In addition, the United States has sent six space probes to Jupiter. Astronomers witnessed a spectacular event in July 1994, when 21 fragments of a comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere. The impacts caused tremendous explosions, some scattering debris over areas larger than the diameter of Earth.

Temperature

The temperature at the top of Jupiter's clouds is about -230 degrees F. Measurements made by ground instruments and spacecraft show that Jupiter's temperature increases with depth below the clouds. The temperature reaches 70 degrees F -- "room temperature" -- at a level where the atmospheric pressure is about 10 times as great as it is on Earth. Scientists speculate that if Jupiter has any form of life, the life form would reside at this level. Such life would need to be airborne, because there is no solid surface at this location on Jupiter. Scientists have discovered no evidence for life on Jupiter. Near the planet's center, the temperature is much higher. The core temperature may be about 43,000 degrees F -- hotter than the surface of the sun. Jupiter is still losing the heat produced when it became a planet. Most astronomers believe that the sun, the planets, and all the other bodies in the solar system formed from a spinning cloud of gas and dust. The gravitation of the gas and dust particles packed them together into dense clouds and solid chunks of stuff. By about 4.6 billion years ago, the material had squeezed together to form the various bodies in the solar system. The compression of material produced heat. So much heat was produced when Jupiter formed that the planet still radiates about twice as much heat into space as it receives from sunlight.