The ancient chinese knew jupiter as the ' sui star' (suìxīng 歲星) and established their cycle of twelve earthly branches based on the approximate number of years it takes jupiter to revolve around the sun The chinese language still uses its name (歲 Simplified as 岁) when referring to years of age. 18, 1989, from the cargo bay of space shuttle atlantis, the spacecraft orbited jupiter for almost eight years, and made close passes by all the planet's major moons Galileo even carried a small probe that it deployed and sent deep into the atmosphere of jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth and largest planet from the sun, a gas giant exceeding the mass of all other solar system planets combined
Its diameter is 11 times that of earth This is the timeline of jupiter, and we're gonna show you the timeline 4.6 billion years ago jupiter's core formed 4.5 billion years ago jupiter began growing collecting gas from his surroundings 4 billion years ago jupiter developed a circumplanetary disk several moons formed but crashed back. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and the largest planet within the solar system 1900 1950 jan 7, 1610, galileo discoverd jupiter's 4 moons sep 3, 1664, discovery of jupiter's great red spot sep 3, 1690, evalutation of jupiter's atmosphere sep 3, 1938, 3 small white ovals are observed on jupiter's surface jupiter's great red spot discovered Scientists began to use space missions to unlock the planet’s secrets in the early 1970s when juno’s earliest ancestors, pioneer 10 and 11, launched
