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Jupiter

Floating in Space • 23m

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.

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Danielle Parsons executive producer
Sean Nesler director
Sean Nesler animator

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