JUPITER

Average Distance From Sun 484 million miles (778 million km)   Mass 317.89 (earth = 1)..   Diameter 88,846 miles (142,984 km) Surface Gravity 2.64 (earth = 1)   Length of Day 9 hrs. 50 mins. 30 secs.   Length of Year 11.86 earth years Mean Surface Temperature -150* C Inclination to Axis 3.12 degrees Albedo 0.43 Escape Velocity 60.22 km/s   Known Moons 27

Jupiter is more massive than all the other planets and moons in our solar system combined. Jupiter's core may be as hot as 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit (30,000 C).  It gets more heat internally than from the sun. The great red spot in its southern hemisphere; a hurricane-like storm  is big enough to swallow two or three Earths and may have been churning for a million years.