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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. It's the largest and most massive planet in the solar system. Jupiter's diameter is about 142,000 kilometers (88,000 miles) - about 11 times the diameter of Earth. The mass of Jupiter is about 1,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms - about 318 times the mass of Earth.

It takes Jupiter about 11.86 years to make a single orbit of the sun. It's average distance from the sun is about 778,000,000 kilometers (483 million miles).

Voyager 1 took this image of Jupiter and Ganymede when the spacecraft was a little over a month away from it's closest approach to the giant planet.

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Voyager 2 (Miscellaneous)
Pioneer 10 (Miscellaneous)
Pioneer 11 (Miscellaneous)
Army Ballistic Missile Agency (Miscellaneous)
Asteroid Belt (Miscellaneous)
Ganymede (Miscellaneous)
Great Red Spot (Miscellaneous)
Galileo (Miscellaneous)
Asteroid Ida (Miscellaneous)
Shoemaker-Levy (Miscellaneous)
Wild 2 (Miscellaneous)
Able (Miscellaneous)
Baker (Miscellaneous)
Jupiter AM-18 (Miscellaneous)
Able and Baker, a pair of monkeys, were launched atop a Jupiter on May 28, 1959.
Jupiter as photographed by Voyager 2. (Picture)
Voyager 1 took this image of Jupiter and Ganymede when the spacecraft was a little over a month away from it's closest approach to the giant planet. (Picture)