📜 A Letter from the Giant with the Great Red Spot 🌪️🪐 Jupiter

Dear Children of Earth 🌍,

I’m Jupiter—the giant among giants! 🌟 You could call me the big boss of our Solar System. I’m so huge that if you tried to fit Earth inside me, you could squeeze in over 1,300 Earths! 😲 That’s like the thousand cube plus 300 on top of it.. and the Earth is the smallest green cube from the wooden hierarchical material. You all live there, with all the animals,plants,particles and all fun inventions humans made.

I was born over 4.5 billion years ago ⏳, from the same swirling clouds of dust 🌫️ and gas 💨 as all my planet siblings. Some of the planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—ended up as rocky planets 🪨, with solid ground and tall mountains. But not me! I’m a gas giant, made mostly of two super-light gases called hydrogen and helium 🎈. You know helium—it’s what makes party balloons float up to the ceiling and sometimes float away and get lost in the layers of the artmosphere. 🎈🎉. And hydrogen is even lighter! That’s why if you tried to land on me, you wouldn’t find any ground—you’d just sink into my swirling clouds ☁️ like diving into an endless sky and end up nowhere.

I spin fast—faster than any other planet! 🔄 One day for me is just under 10 Earth hours. That’s right, I go from sunrise to sunrise before you’ve even finished your afternoon snack, it will already be bedtime! 🍎➡️😴 But my year? Oh, I take my time… it takes me nearly 12 Earth years—that’s about 4,380 Earth days—to go all the way around the Sun.😲

If you lived here, you’d have to wait so long for your birthday 🎂 that you might start school, grow taller than your teacher, and even learn how to bake your own cake 🍰… before you finally turned one year old in Jupiter time! So imagine this—you could be 36 years old on Earth, but only 3 years old on Jupiter. That’s right, you’d still be in preschool! 🎒😂

You’ve probably seen my most famous feature—the Great Red Spot 🎯. That’s no polka dot—it’s a storm bigger than Earth that’s been raging for at least 350 years! 🌪️ Imagine a windy day that started when your great-great-great-great-great-grandparents were alive… and it’s still going! And get this—I’ve got a moon squad 🪐, more than 90 moons spinning around me. Not to brag but four of them—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—are so big they could be planets themselves. They’re like my four “famous” kids while the others are the shy ones who don’t get in the pictures. 📸

From where you stand on Earth, the Sun looks small — just a penny in the sky. But that’s because it is so far away. In reality, the Sun is huge — so big that more than 1 million Earths could fit inside it. If the big Million cube is the Sun, and you live on Earth which is the small green unit cube , remember who am I ? Yes, the thousand cube! So cool! Just imagine, I am giant haha, but when look at the million cube I feel small, and you are even smaller.

Now, look at this chart. Before, we saw how small Earth was compared to the Sun — just a tiny dot. Here, instead of Earth, I drew myself , the largest planet in our Solar System, the big gas giant. I look small, the Sun is about 10 times wider than me.

💭 I wonder… Could you find out which of my moons might hide oceans under their icy shells? 🌊 Or maybe calculate how old you’d be if you live on Jupiter? You can even make a model of me with my stripes and giant red spot—don’t forget to give me ALL my moons (you might need a bigger table!). Or investigate what makes gas giants different from rocky planets?

With giant, gassy greetings 💨,

Jupiter 🌟