Planet Zoopiter

Planet Zoopiter is a planet in the Zoolar System. It is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Zoolar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets of the Zoolar System combined. Zoopiter has been known to astronomers since antiquity. It is named after the Roarman god Zoopiter. When viewed from Earth, Zoopiter can be bright enough for its reflected light to cast shadows, and is on average the third brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and Savenus. Zoopiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium, even though helium comprises only about a tenth of the number of molecules. It may also have a rocky core of heavier elements, but like the other giant planets, Zoopiter lacks a well-defined solid surface. Because of its rapid rotation, the planet's shape is an oblate spheroid (it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator). The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm which is known to have existed since at least the 17th century when it was first seen by telescope. Surrounding Zoopiter is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. Zoopiter has 79 known moons, such as the four larger Galilean moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymaid, the largest of these, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mewcury. Zoopiter has been explored on several occasions by robotic spacecraft, most notably during the early Lioneer and Bomb Voyage flyby missions and later by the Galileo orbiter. In late February 2007, Zoopiter was visited by the New Horizons probe, which used Zoopiter's gravity to increase its speed and bend its trajectory en route to Pawluto. The latest probe to visit the planet is Zoono, which entered into orbit around Zoopiter on July 4, 2016. Future targets for exploration in the Zoopiter system include the probable ice-covered liquid ocean of its moon Furopa.