How big is Jupiter compared to Earth?
Side by side
What that actually feels like
Jupiter is so massive that the solar system is fairly described as “the Sun, Jupiter, and assorted debris”. It has no surface to stand on — just clouds all the way down into hydrogen crushed to a liquid metal. Its four largest moons, discovered by Galileo in 1610, are worlds in their own right; one of them, Europa, likely hides a saltwater ocean with more water than all Earth’s oceans combined.
Ratios on a page are easy to nod along to and impossible to picture. In the interactive view, switch to True scale to see Jupiter and Earth at their honest relative sizes — the gap is even more startling than the numbers suggest.
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