Planet
Jupiter
Fifth planet from the Sun
Right now · as of
How far is Jupiter from Earth?
839 million km (5.61 AU)
Its light takes 46 min 39 s to reach us.
Getting closer by 2.18 million km a day.
795 million km (5.31 AU) from the Sun.
Open in 3DSpacecraft at Jupiter now
Spacecraft that went there
- Pioneer 10December 4, 1973 · Flies past Jupiter, 202,995 km away
- Pioneer 11December 4, 1974 · Flies past Jupiter, 1,408,268 km away
- Voyager 1March 5, 1979 · Flies past Jupiter, 348,379 km away
- Voyager 2July 9, 1979 · Flies past Jupiter, 721,021 km away
- UlyssesFebruary 8, 1992 · Flies past Jupiter, 450,485 km away
- CassiniDecember 30, 2000 · Flies past Jupiter, 9,794,460 km away
- New HorizonsFebruary 28, 2007 · Flies past Jupiter, 2,304,505 km away
- JunoApril 7, 2016 · Arrives at Jupiter
- Europa ClipperJanuary 17, 2030 · Arrives at Jupiter · expected
- JUICEJuly 20, 2031 · Flies past Jupiter, 1,856,474 km away · expected
From the trajectories NASA JPL Horizons publishes, for the flights TAKIP has fetched.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass nearly 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. The diameter of Jupiter is 11 times that of Earth and a tenth that of the Sun. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm), with an orbital period of 11.86 years.
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