The biggest plant in the solar system is jupiter.It is the largest by mass, volume, and surface area among other statistics.The diameter at the equator of Jupiter is 140,000 kilometers. All of the planets in our solar system could nicely fit inside Jupiter twice over!
Jupiter is classified as a Gas Giant planet, meaning that it is mainly composed of gases; hydrogen with a little helium mixed in and trace amounts of other elements.
It does have a solid core, made of different materials and thought to be roughly 12 times or more the mass of the Earth.Jupiter has 63 known moons, but four are large enough to be of note; Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The Galileo spacecraft, the only space mission dedicated to Jupiter, orbited the planet for 7 years enabling us to glimpse up close and personal the Shoemaker-Levy comet’s collision with the planet and to gain some spectacular photographs of its larger moons.(Credit to NASA)
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