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Given the page, I am assuming you're asking about this image. It shows the orbit of the station around the earth as a red line. From this view, the position of the line is approximately fixed around the center of the earth, with the angle almost fixed with respect to the stars (inertial frames). In this view, the earth turns to the right (west to east) ...

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No. The ISS is in low-earth orbit, so it won't maintain a specific ground-track along the earth. Wikipedia has a picture of the orbit at different times that I'll attach below (open source image):

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Actually you can go to the orbit of Jupiter with a $\approx 2500$ tonnes rocket and a $3$ tonnes payload. From there you can use an ionic engine. A rocket launched from the equator of Jupiter that turns at $12.6~\text{km}/\text{s}$ needs just an increase in speed $v = 29.5~\text{km}/{\text{s}}$. v_{rj}:= 12.6~{\text{km}}/{\text{s}} \;\;\; R_j := ...

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Let's assume you mean that Earth now has the mass of Jupiter (as opposed to actually launching from the literal planet Jupiter - whole different question...). Then: radius of Earth = $6.4 \times 10^6~\text{m}$ mass of Jupiter = $1.9 \times 10^{27}~\text{kg}$ Escape velocity, $v_\text{escape} = \sqrt{\frac{2GM}{r}}$ This gives a value for ...

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Hey! The question keeps getting edited! Make up your mind! You asked about Mars originally, then edited the question. Actual, real Jupiter is flat out impossible. Does it have a surface to launch from? Who knows? What's the pressure at that depth? Can our probes even survive at that depth? Probably not? What if Earth had the mass of Jupiter? More ...

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