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Jupiter Unique Facts

Jupiter's Unique Facts and Features Proclaim a Special Creation
by Owen Borville
April 7, 2021
Astronomy, Science, Learning

Jupiter is a gas-giant planet, with no solid rocky surface. Jupiter is massive, the largest planet in our Solar System, the fifth planet from the sun, and more than twice as massive as all other planets combined. Jupiter is 11 times the size of Earth and 317 times the mass of Earth.
Jupiter has the shortest day of any planet and fastest rotation: 10 hours. Jupiter rotates around the sun once every 11.8 years. Jupiter is rotating so rapidly that its equator bulges outward, and poles flatten, creating an oblate shape wider than tall. The fast rotation of Jupiter is difficult to explain with a mainstream timeline of 4.5 billion years, as Jupiter's spin would have slowed down by then. However, in a young creationist timeline of 6,000 years, there is no issue. The large size of Jupiter also makes its rotation rate unique. How can it be so big and spin so fast for so long?
Jupiter is composed of mainly hydrogen and helium, just like the sun. Percentages are about 90 percent hydrogen, 10 percent helium, and trace amounts of other elements.
Jupiter is the third brightest planet in the solar system from Earth observed in the night sky and the fourth brightest object in the sky after the sun, moon, and Venus. Jupiter is one of five planets that can be seen with the naked eye from Earth, along with Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn
The ancient Babylonians discovered and sighted Jupiter in the 7th or 8th century B.C. Galileo Galilei also later observed Jupiter along with four of its moons in 1610.
Jupiter may have a solid inner core about the size of Earth.
Unique cloud features of Jupiter and stripes are viewed from Earth. The stripes and colors of Jupiter are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium.
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is actually a giant storm that is larger than the Earth and has been in existence for hundreds of years.
Jupiter has rings divided into four sets, discovered in 1979 by the Voyager space probe. The rings are composed of dust particles rotating around the planet and resulting from collisions from moons, comets, asteroids, and other planetary bodies. The presence of a ring system showcases the youth of Jupiter, as these rings would have disappeared within mainstream time periods.
Nine space craft have visited Jupiter, seven flying by and two orbiting. The most recent space craft, Juno, arrived at Jupiter in 2016.
Scientists use Jupiter's large gravity to pull spacecraft toward it and further into outer space. Pulling spacecraft toward Jupiter and beyond would not be possible without its gravitational pull.
Jupiter has more than 75 moons, the four largest moons were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, the first moons discovered beyond the Earth's moon: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. This discovery helped confirm the Heliocentric model of Copernicus and that not every moon or planet rotates around the Earth.
Jupiter's magnetic field is 14 times stronger than Earth and is the strongest planetary magnetic field in the solar system. A thick layer of metallic hydrogen surrounds its core creates charged particles that generates its strong magnetic field and acts as an electric conductor. At high temperatures and pressures, metallic hydrogen acts as a liquid, generating the magnetic field. Jupiter's fast rotation could also be strengthening the strong magnetic field of this planet.​
Jupiter produces twice as much energy as it receives from sun, a unique fact that defies mainstream theories and gives strong evidence for a unique creation. Its large mass is the largest factor in its energy production and its large magnetic field. However, being so far away from the sun, how does Jupiter produce so much energy for so long? A shorter time frame in the thousands of years would solve this problem.
Jupiter doesn't have enough mass and energy to become a sun or star and doesn't produce enough hydrogen fusion into helium to produce the energy needed to become a star.
Jupiter does not experience seasons like Earth because its rotational tilt is only a little over three degrees. This is why the Earth is so unique in providing the necessary conditions for life that other planets do not have.
Jupiter Shield: Some scientists believe that the large presence and gravitational pull of Jupiter, Saturn, and the other Jovian planets help shield the Earth from harmful asteroids and other objects by deflecting or absorbing them so that they do not reach the Earth. If so, this would be another product of Design and Creation. The presence of so many asteroids and comets in our solar system also showcases a young solar system. Some scientists, on the other hand, also believe that Jupiter deflects these objects toward Earth because some have reached the Earth in the past. Recent studies by scientists have focused on the belief that Jupiter and the Jovian planets sent objects to Earth that helped create life and living conditions on Earth. However, without Jupiter and the Jovian planets, the Earth could have been bombarded with impact collisions from objects from outer space, preventing the conditions for life to form.
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