Jupiter in 3D: live position and orbit

The giant of the Solar System, more massive than all the other planets combined. Its Great Red Spot is a storm centuries old.

Jupiter is shown at its real position, computed from NASA/JPL ephemeris data. The view opens on Jupiter; you can travel in time, switch between the educational overview and the true-scale voyage, and compare it with every other body of the solar system.

Equatorial radius at 1 bar

71 492 km¹

Mass

1.90 × 10²⁷ kg¹

Gravity at 1 bar

25.92 m/s²¹

Mean temperature at 1 bar

-110 °C¹

Temperature at 1 bar

165 K (-108 °C) (the main table of the same catalogue gives -110 °C, 1.85 K apart)¹

Temperature at 0.1 bar

112 K (-161 °C)¹

Density at 1 bar

0.16 kg/m³¹

Scale height

27 km¹

Mean molecular weight

2.22 g/mol¹

Winds

up to 150 m/s below 30° latitude, 40 m/s beyond¹

Mean distance from the Sun

5.203 AU¹

Orbital period

4 333 days¹

Sidereal rotation

9.92 hours¹

Axial tilt

3.1°¹

Known moons

115 (as of October 2026)²

Missions

• Pioneer 10
• Pioneer 11
• Voyager
• Galileo
• International Ultraviolet Explorer Mission
• Phobos Mission
• HST
• Ulysses
• Comet D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker-Levy 9) Collision into Jupiter
• Cassini-Huygens
• New Horizons
• Juno
• Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)
• JUICE
• Europa Clipper Mission

Flybys

• March 5, 1979: Voyager 1
• July 9, 1979: Voyager 2
• December 30, 2000: Cassini
• February 28, 2007: New Horizons

Orbit insertions

• July 5, 2016: Juno

Sources

1. NASA NSSDCA, Planetary and Satellite Fact Sheets. read 2026-09-17. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
2. NASA Science, Jupiter Moons. read 2026-09-17. https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/