The journey to the center of JupiterJupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the 5th planet from the Sun. It's a very unique and interesting planet. Its famous "red dot" and raging gas storms give it a cool look. Jupiter is an outer planet and a gas giant. Most gas giants have many moons and are surrounded by a set of rings or a thin disk of small particles of ice and rock. Like all gas giants, Jupiter has a thick atmosphere composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter is much larger than Earth. You can fit about 1,300 Earths into Jupiter. The Great Red Spot is a storm larger than Earth, which is pretty incredible. Jupiter also reflects many shades of white, red, orange, brown and yellow. Jupiter's colors change with storms and winds in its atmosphere. Another fact is that of all the planets, Jupiter has the shortest day. It rotates on its axis every 9 hours and 55 minutes and orbits the Sun once every 11.8 Earth years. The planet also has 50 official moons and 12 unofficial moons. Galileo discovered the four largest and best-known moons in 1610. Their names are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Jupiter, as you can see, is a very unique planet and the largest and most complex of all the planets in the solar system. Jupiter's atmosphere is very unique and complex. Its atmosphere is composed of hydrogen and helium. Small amounts of compounds such as methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and water were also found. It is the combination of these chemical compounds and elements that helped create the colorful layers of clouds seen by ground-based telescopes. Jupiter's atmosphere is the largest in the solar system and is represented by cold clouds and turbulence...... middle of paper ......: a flat main ring, a more inner ring large and two wispy outer rings that are inside Io's orbit. The rings are composed of very small dark particles the size of smoke particles. They are made by dust kicked up by Jupiter's tiny, innermost moons through impact on the moons. The Halo ring is a large, lightweight donut-shaped ring. It is approximately 22,800 m wide and 20,000 km thick. It begins 100,000 km from the center of Jupiter; the outer edge of the Halo enters the main ring. The main ring is 6,400 km wide and less than 30 km thick. Adrastea and Metis, two small moons, orbit inside the main ring. The Gossamer ring is a very thin and wide ring. It consists of two rings, one embedded in the other. It is made up of very small particles. The rings around Jupiter had never been seen before the arrival of Voyager 1 in 1979. The rings of Jupiter