Jupiter is 11 times bigger than Earth. It has a diameter of 139,822 km. However, it is not a rocky planet, consisting mainly of gases and fluids like hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere is very turbulent, and it has different bands of colored clouds, such as the Great Red Spot, which is a giant storm that has been active for at least 400 years.
Days on Jupiter last only 10 hours, and the planet takes 11.86 Earth years to complete one lap around the sun. Jupiter’s magnetic field is 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s, making it the most powerful of all the planets in the solar system. Its gravity is 2.5 times stronger than Earth’s.