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What type of planet is Jupiter?
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What Jupiter's moon is the largest moon in the Solar System?
Ganymede has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury.
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How many moons does Jupiter have?
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In 1973 which space probe flew by Jupiter and provided the first close up pictures of the planet?
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What is the name of the giant storm on Jupiter
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What elements are most common on Jupiter?
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Which of Jupiter's moons is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System and has about 400 active volcanos?
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Which of Jupiter's moons is believed to have a massive subsurface ocean?
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Which civilization is thought to have been the first to track the planet Jupiter?
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How are the four most massive moons of Jupiter called?
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What region in the Solar System is located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars?
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Whish fact is NOT true about Jupiter?
It is the third brightest object in the night sky
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It doesn’t have a true surface
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It is the sixth planet from the Sun
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What did Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin detect coming from Jupiter in 1955?
Burke and Franklin detected bursts of radio signals coming from Jupiter at 22.2 MHz.
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What is the average temperature on Jupiter?
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What happened to Juno space probe that entered a polar orbit of Jupiter in 2016?
It is still orbiting the planet
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It was destroyed after the mission was completed
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It landed on Europa moon
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Juno's investigation of Jupiter will continue through September 2025, or until the spacecraft's end of life.