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Jupiter does not have a solid surface, and the lowest atmospheric layer, the troposphere, smoothly transitions into the planet's fluid interior. [2] This is a result of having temperatures and the pressures well above those of the critical points for hydrogen and helium, meaning that there is no sharp boundary between gas and liquid phases.
Atmospheric super-rotation is a phenomenon where a planet's atmosphere rotates faster than the planet itself. This behavior is observed in the atmospheres of Venus , Titan , Jupiter , and Saturn. Venus exhibits the most extreme super-rotation, with its atmosphere circling the planet in four Earth days, much faster than the planet's own rotation ...
its period is the planet's shortest, at 9h 50m 30.0s--Akbarmohammadzade 09:49, 13 November 2011 (UTC) we are preparing new results for way of explaining reason of Jupiter’s' fast rotation.--Akbarmohammadzade 10:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC) The main reason is conservation of angular momentum.
In science class, we always learned that all the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. Scientists have figured out this is not necessarily true.
3-hour timelapse showing rotation of Jupiter and orbital motion of the moons. Jupiter is the only planet whose barycentre with the Sun lies outside the volume of the Sun, though by 7% of the Sun's radius. [130] [131] The average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is 778 million km (5.20 AU) and it completes an orbit every 11.86 years.
Jupiter maintains the moons' orbits via tides they raise on it and thus its rotational energy ultimately powers the system. [1] Saturn's moon Enceladus is similarly thought to have a liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust, due to tidal heating related to its resonance with Dione .
Europa is a prime candidate for life in the Solar System, researchers suggest.
At around 600 miles wide and up to 6,000 meters (nearly four miles) deep, the Drake is objectively a vast body of water. To us, that is. To the planet as a whole, less so.