Jupiter’s atmosphere is so thick and its gravitational pull so strong that 20,000 kilometres beneath the cloud tops the pressure is 2,000,000 times greater than the surface pressure here on Earth. Under such immense pressure hot hydrogen gas in the atmosphere is transformed into a strange metallic liquid. As the gasses are squeezed a vast amount of energy is released. Enough energy to fuel some of the strongest storms in the solar system. Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Solar System: The Thin Blue Line, BBC 2010
Jupiter: 780 million km from the sun: the largest of the planets is a giant swirling ball of gas. Its marbled appearance is generated by violent winds that rage through its clouds. Jupiter is a world as strange as it is remote. Brian Cox, The Planets III: The Godfather, BBC 2019
Jupiter is the godfather of the planet. Understand it and you understand how the solar system came to be. ibid.
You could fit 1,300 Earths inside. ibid.
The largest hurricanes in our cosmic neighbourhood can be found on the solar system’s largest planet. Like weather here on Earth, weather on Jupiter is caused by temperature differentials. Extreme Universe: Space Storms, National Geographic 2010
But what we don’t know is what’s going on deep inside far beneath the storms. To find out NASA launched the space craft Galileo on a fourteen-year mission to Jupiter. How the Universe Works s1e6: Extreme Planets, Discovery 2010
Jupiter’s magnetic field is twenty thousand times that on Earth. And it’s so huge it extends all the way to Saturn. ibid.
Jupiter: a cosmic giant ruling the other planets. Hidden in its atmosphere lie the secrets of our solar system’s formation. And the creation of life. How the Universe Works s3e3: Jupiter: Destroyer or Saviour? Discovery 2014
Nitrogen made up 90% of Jupiter’s atmosphere … It was hotter and more turbulent that scientists had ever imagined. ibid.
What’s inside remains a mystery. ibid.
Is Jupiter losing its power? ibid.
A thousand time more massive than the Earth … This giant is getting smaller. ibid.
NASA’s revolutionary Juno probe is on a daring voyage to Jupiter. Its goal: to reveal the deepest histories of our solar system. How the Universe Works s8e1: When NASA Met Jupiter
A world 550 million miles away. But we didn’t send Juno just to send pictures. One of its main goals is to peer deep into Jupiter’s dark heart. ibid.
My theory is that the Star of Bethlehem was Jupiter. And the event that Jupiter was in at the time was a coming together with Saturn [and] another planet in the constellation of Pisces. (Star & Jupiter & Saturn) Dr David Hughes
It would take Voyager almost two years to reach Jupiter. Storyville: The Farthest: Voyager’s Interstellar Journey, BBC 2018
Jupiter: Voyager recorded the sounds of the violent radiation onslaught. ibid.
‘Every 48 seconds a new image would come down.’ ibid. Nasa dude
865 billion km from Earth … ‘It’s like a gigantic engine’ … Pioneer X was due to fly past Jupiter on 3rd December 1973 and these are some of the first images it sent back … During its closest approach to Jupiter, Pioneer X absorbed 1,000 times the lethal dose of radiation for a human being. Secrets of the Solar System VI: Jupiter, 2020
Finding out what causes this wild weather became a key scientific objective. ibid.
Jupiter has a diameter of 140,000 kilometres. And it was discovered that the planet rotates at about 40,000 kilometres an hour. ibid.
Galileo: the little probe that was going to have an extremely violent introduction to Jupiter. ibid.
Juno carried a camera called Junocam designed to provide pictures for the public on Earth. ibid.
‘It’s failed star but a very successful planet.’ ibid. scientist