I shot these photos on April 9, 2023, when I saw this interesting light low on the horizon as we were readying for bed. I thought at first it was a helicopter or something coming towards us, but when I looked through the lens of the camera, I saw that it was a planet.
Skyview Light on my cellphone said it was Jupiter.
My camera is not made for taking pictures of planets, except maybe the moon, so I'm surprised these came out as well as they did.
Jupiter, named after the Roman god of the sky and the king of the gods (like the more familiar Greek god Zeus), is a fascinating planet that has many features and facts.
Here are some of them based on web search results:
- Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined12.
- Jupiter is a gas giant with no solid surface. It has a thick atmosphere of mostly hydrogen and helium, with clouds of ammonia and water134.
- Jupiter has a powerful magnetosphere that produces intense auroras and radiation belts. It also has a complex system of rings made of dust and debris14.
- Jupiter rotates very fast, about once every 10 hours, but orbits very slowly, about once every 12 Earth years24.
- Jupiter has more than 75 moons, including four large ones called Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Some of these moons may have oceans or volcanoes that could support life24.
- Jupiter is famous for its Great Red Spot, a huge storm that has been raging for centuries. It is bigger than Earth and can be seen from space234.
Bing AI assisted with the information. I left the footnotes, because, why not?
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