Welcome to the solar system! This series of Geocaches is a virtual scale tour of our solar system to show the vastly enormous distances between the planets. And this is just the first steps into our own backyard in space! This series consists of The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. In order to find the Sun, you must visit all ten other caches and get a number from inside of each, and plug them into the puzzle to find the Sun.
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. It has at least sixty six known moons. Jupiter has a relatively small core and most of the planet is made up of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter is known for the great red spot, it’s full of tornadoes and hurricanes and stuff. Two of Jupiter’s moons are larger than Mercury!
At this scale Jupiter is about 5 feet in diameter and the Sun is 50 feet tall, about 1/4 the size of the water tower to the South. You should not need the binoculars to see the water tower from here.
Please enjoy finding all the the caches in this series and don't forget to get the number from inside the cache to find the sun!
Congratulations to Campfire for the FTF!