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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on June 6, 2007.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 15, 2006	Featured topic candidate	Promoted
January 17, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
January 30, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
January 31, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 24, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 27, 2008	Featured topic candidate	Not promoted
July 17, 2009	Featured topic candidate	Promoted
January 23, 2021	Featured article review	Demoted
June 13, 2021	Featured topic removal candidate	Demoted
June 19, 2021	Featured topic removal candidate	Demoted
April 29, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed
June 20, 2022	Featured topic candidate	Promoted
June 28, 2023	Peer review	Reviewed
October 10, 2023	Peer review	Not reviewed
October 29, 2023	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 13, 2024	Featured topic candidate	Promoted
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

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This article was copy edited by Tdslk, a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, on 25 January 2021.Guild of Copy EditorsWikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsTemplate:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsGuild of Copy Editors articles

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Section sizes

Section size for Jupiter (34 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	13,605	13,605
Name and symbol	3,958	3,958
Formation and migration	12,101	12,101
Physical characteristics	2,139	63,286
Composition	8,399	8,399
Size and mass	9,459	9,459
Internal structure	10,958	10,958
Atmosphere	582	24,081
Cloud layers	10,224	10,224
Great Red Spot and other vortices	13,275	13,275
Magnetosphere	6,055	6,055
Planetary rings	2,195	2,195
Orbit and rotation	5,873	5,873
Observation	3,828	41,259
History	17	37,431
Pre-telescopic research	4,578	4,578
Ground-based telescope research	8,805	8,805
Radiotelescope research	2,647	2,647
Exploration	2,500	21,384
Flyby missions	5,197	5,197
Galileo mission	2,575	2,575
Juno mission	5,438	5,438
Cancelled missions and future plans	5,674	5,674
Moons	1,721	11,895
Galilean moons	4,085	4,085
Classification	6,089	6,089
Interaction with the Solar System	3,662	9,776
Impacts	6,114	6,114
In culture	9,954	9,954
See also	347	347
Notes	43	43
References	3,355	3,355
Further reading	725	725
External links	1,360	1,360
Total	177,537	177,537

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Unclear terminology

Within Physical Characteristics and Composition, there is this sentence:

"The atmosphere also contains trace amounts of methane, water vapour, ammonia, and silicon-based compounds, as well as fractional amounts of carbon, ethane, hydrogen sulfide, neon, oxygen, phosphine, and sulfur.

Does anyone know what this sentence is referring to when it says trace amounts versus fractional amounts? Based upon information in the article for the Atmosphere of Jupiter, I can't really determine whether these categories refer to actual differences or are just arbitrary. Rogu Roguu (talk) 05:06, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems this was introduced in this copyedit by @Praemonitus who intended it to be a perfect synonym for the sake of variation. I've double-checked and see no reason not to just merge the two lists together, so I'll go ahead and do so. Remsense ‥ 论 07:59, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jupiter image

With the multiple photos of Jupiter we have in Commons, surely there would be a larger file that's also in true colour. Would anyone care to put in the effort for finding one since the current image's technical quality is bothering the hell out of me. _ZZ^Z 'S 14:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The current image quality looks good to me, and it satisfies the image criteria for planetary objects. Cf. MOS:ASTRO: "Show the article object as viewed in natural light, without enhancements of specific spectral bands or frequency shifting". Praemonitus (talk) 18:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think a fuzzy image with a 579 × 549 resolution and a file size of 91 KB is "good" quality. _ZZ^Z 'S 18:21, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If the current resolution is greater than the actual displayed image size, why would increasing the resolution matter? Praemonitus (talk) 05:21, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It prevents upscaling because upscaling a PNG/JPG decreases the image quality. _ZZ^Z 'S 17:43, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Someone changed it again to New Horizon's image which shows Jupiter in false color. New Horizons lacks proper filters to establish a true color image. Only crude approximations can be made. In case of Jupiter flyby, we see there's olive-green color and that simply doesn't exist there. I changed the picture and then someone reverted the editing "because it's too small". That is not a valid criterium. A small photograph of a lion with a normal camera, would obviously be prefered to a larger, false color thermal image. Why not planets? There is a continuous annoying effort online to represent bodies of the Solar system as they don't appear. Lajoswinkler (talk) 14:18, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think this photo from Juno is a good alternative File:Jupiter - Perijove 21 - GRS Composite (48415785321).jpg. Artem.G (talk) 21:27, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that'd work. It's too distorted and not very conducive to what it would actually look like from a human's point of view. The Hubble photo that recently got swapped in is far better; I don't know why I had even added the New Horizons photo there in the first place. TheWhistleGag (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]