Jupiter

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Jupiter facts from the NASA Planetary Fact Sheet (metric).

Mass: 1898 × 10²⁴ kg
Diameter: 142,984 km
Density: 1326 kg/m³
Gravity: 23.1 m/s²
Escape Velocity: 59.5 km/s
Rotation Period: 9.9 hours
Length of Day: 9.9 hours
Distance from Sun: 778.5 × 10⁶ km
Perihelion: 740.6 × 10⁶ km
Aphelion: 816.4 × 10⁶ km
Orbital Period: 4331 days
Orbital Velocity: 13.1 km/s
Orbital Inclination: 1.3 degrees
Orbital Eccentricity: 0.049
Obliquity to Orbit: 3.1 degrees
Mean Temperature: -110 C
Surface Pressure: Unknown (NASA footnote: The surfaces of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are deep in the atmosphere and the location and pressures are not known.)
Number of Moons: 95
Ring System?: Yes
Global Magnetic Field?: Yes
Detailed NASA fact sheet: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/jupiterfact.html
Values compared to Earth: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/planet_table_ratio.html
Notes on the values: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/planetfact_notes.html
Fact sheet last updated: 18 March 2025

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Jupiter facts from the NASA Planetary Fact Sheet (metric).

- Mass: 1898 × 10²⁴ kg
- Diameter: 142,984 km
- Density: 1326 kg/m³
- Gravity: 23.1 m/s²
- Escape Velocity: 59.5 km/s
- Rotation Period: 9.9 hours
- Length of Day: 9.9 hours
- Distance from Sun: 778.5 × 10⁶ km
- Perihelion: 740.6 × 10⁶ km
- Aphelion: 816.4 × 10⁶ km
- Orbital Period: 4331 days
- Orbital Velocity: 13.1 km/s
- Orbital Inclination: 1.3 degrees
- Orbital Eccentricity: 0.049
- Obliquity to Orbit: 3.1 degrees
- Mean Temperature: -110 C
- Surface Pressure: Unknown (NASA footnote: The surfaces of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are deep in the atmosphere and the location and pressures are not known.)
- Number of Moons: 95
- Ring System?: Yes
- Global Magnetic Field?: Yes
- Detailed NASA fact sheet: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/jupiterfact.html
- Values compared to Earth: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/planet_table_ratio.html
- Notes on the values: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/planetfact_notes.html
- Fact sheet last updated: 18 March 2025

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Published by Koskamo2026-10-04
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