NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter in 2020. How is it possible that Jupiter doesn’t have a surface? Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ MSSS/ David Marriott.
- Jupiter is a giant gas planet and the largest planet in our solar system.
- But Jupiter has no surface. It’s made of gases that get increasingly dense as you head toward the center. Its interior is extremely inhospitable.
- If Jupiter didn’t exist, life on Earth probably wouldn’t exist either. That’s...