7 Mind blowing facts about Jupiter

1. Length of a is only 9 hours and 56 minutes. It takes 12 Earth years to complete one year on Jupiter.

2. Jupiter doesn't experience seasons just like other planets such as Earth and Mars.

3. It is a gas giant with mass one - thousandth that of the Sun, but two and half times of all the other planets in the solar system combined.

4. The temperature in the clouds of Jupiter is about minus 145 degree celsius. The temperature near the planet's centre is 24,000 which is much more hotter than the surface of sun.

5. Jupiter has total 79 moons. It's largest moon is Ganymede which is larger that Mercury, and Pluto, and three quarters of the size of Mars.

6. Jupiter's magnetic field is 14 times stronger than Earth's. It is the planet to have the strongest magnetic field in the solar system.

7. There is a persistent high pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter know as Great Red Spot. It produces an anticyclonic str which is twice as wide as Earth and also more than twice the speed of even the strongest hurricane.