Jupiter is the 5th planet away from the sun. It is the largest planet in the solar system of the Milky Way galaxy. This gas giant is the third brightest object next to the Moon and Venus. The composition of Jupiter is dominated by Hydrogen while some part is made up of Helium. It has a rough surface and a rocky core. This mysterious planet rotates rapidly which causes its shape to be oblique spheroid. Jupiter belongs to a faint planetary system but with a magnetosphere region.
The outer surroundings of Jupiter is separated by bands in different latitudes. It resulted to storms and turbulences from their interactions. This created the Great Red Spot. Several spacecrafts have already visited Jupiter. Juno was one of the space probes to have entered its orbit on July 4, 2016. Incidentally, Juno in Roman mythology was the wife of Jupiter.
In total, Jupiter has 79 moons. Not only did the astronomers gain interest on planet Jupiter, but also on exploring its moons particularly the famous Europa, the sixth largest moon in the solar system. Europa was discovered by Galileo Galilei in the year 1610. What makes this moon more intriguing is where it derived its name. Europa was a princess of Tyre, the lover of Zeus, a Greek god and the King of Mount of Olympus, the equivalent of Jupiter, a Roman god of pantheon.
Planet Jupiter experiences impacts from meteors on a regular basis. On August 7, some astronomers were on their telescopes focusing on Jupiter, when all of a sudden an object smashed it and produced a flash of light. The astronomers were startled and couldn’t tell what object it was. Knowing that Jupiter is prone to these impacts, it could be guessed as meteors or asteroids. On this premise, the vastness of Jupiter would insinuate great time and space to explore its entirety.
