do you think a man will ever stand on jupiter!!!!!!????

Question

well we havenmt got to mars yet but what i mean is do you think a man will stand on jupiter within the next 200 years if we live that long i wander about that aot for some reason but what i dont get is back in 1969 they cou;ld put a man on the moon but they couldnt even figure out how to get a microwave to run correctly but n e ways do you think man will ever stand on jupiter (mars even)??????????

Answer 1

Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface, so I really doubt it.

Answer 2

Will a man stand on Mars? Yes, but probably not until we are closer to the end of the century.

NASAs plans are too ambitious. The problems we have had with the Space Shuttle and the Space Station are typical of advanced space programs. The Mars shot is going to be the longest trip we have ever planned, up to a year each way. We have lost about half the probes that have been sent to Mars and then there is the return to the Moon program. Returning to the moon won’t be hard, but building a permanent base there will be very difficult, especially if we don’t find water on the moon. Plus we haven't answered the big problems of over exposure to zero-g and the intense radiation issue. A trip to Mars will take a long time and if it is done in zero-g then the astronauts won’t be able to walk around when they land. There are other health problems like bone loss that make long exposure to zero-g potentially dangerous. Solar flares are fairly common. Luckily, Earth is protected from them by its magnetic field. A spacecraft traveling to Mars won’t have that protection, and a solar storm could kill the crew. We can solve these problems though.

Will a man stand on Jupiter? No it isn’t worth it.
Jupiter is a Gas Giant, and it is mostly composed of gases like hydrogen, methane and a few more complicated ones. It does have a solid core that could be similar to the core of the Earth. It may even have a mantle, over that core, but the pressures down that deep would require it to be solid iron or even diamond. A suit can't be built that can withstand all that temperature and heat, the minimum requirement would be a bathysphere like craft, only it would have to be a whole lot stronger. There is also a radiation problem, Jupiter is very active and throws off a lot of radiation. Just as the moon causes tides on Earth the moons of Jupiter stir the gases and may even effect the Jupiter core.

Will man ever visit Jupiter? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Arthur C. Clarke and other science fiction writers have written stories about using a blimp to explore the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, but that would not be as exciting as exploring the moons. Europa is covered in ice that could be 2 kilometers thick. However wherever we find water we find life. There are even microbes living in the frozen deserts of Antarctica. A drilling operation to get through the ice surface of Europa would take a lot of time and changing of bits. It is possible to invent an automated probe that could do it, but it would be lot easier if man did the drilling. The probe can’t be controlled from Earth because the signal could take up to 4 hours or more to reach that far. If we want to find life in out solar system that isn’t on Earth then our best chance will be a visit to Europa.

The outer planets, except for Pluto (which is now a Dwarf Planet) are all gas giants as well, but much colder. The chances of man visiting these planets, except for a flyby, are pretty meager. Venus is to hot with sulfuric acid clouds and an intense pressure so I doubt if man will try to land on Venus. Landing on Mercury is possible; the dark side would be safe to visit. However, the closer you get to the Sun the more chance you have of suffering a solar flare, and the stronger they will be. The sun’s gravity field will also make escape from the planet a lot more difficult. Mercury is also a fast moving planet; it has to be to stay in orbit. So we can’t count on arranging our own solar eclipse, using Mercury to protect us. That’s why a visit to Mars is so important, it may be the only, off Earth, planetary real estate that man can every visit in our solar system.

Answer 3

There may be some form of solid mass at the centre of Jupiter, but even if we could get there, the atmospheric pressure would crush Titanium. If it does have a solid core, it is most likely gasses compressed into solid form due to massive pressures. This is suggested by it's low density.

I doubt our technology will ever be able to make any form of planetary probe strong enough to withstand the crushing forces of the atmosphere of Jupiter - certainly not any manned probe - if at all. It must be darker than midnight under thousands of miles of thick clouds on a planet half a billion miles or over 5 times farther than the Earth from the sun.

As for Mars, that would be possible when and if it ever becomes practical, but the gravity of Mars is too weak to hold any atmosphere very long. If we created one, it would quickly evaporate into space faster than we could replenish it.

Sending a manned mission to Mars is currently a technical and logistical nightmare, so it's not likely to happen any time soon, but it's not totally out of the question.
 

Answer 4

You can't stand on Jupiter. It's a gas giant. By the time you got down deep enough in its atmosphere where the density is thick enough to stand on, you'd be squashed flatter than a dime from the immense gravity. It would be interesting to see if we could explore the atmosphere though. Might be life floating around somewhere down deep in the atmospheric layers, where the density is high enough to push the temperature to a nice toasty 80 degrees. Getting a spaceship to be able to fly that deep into the atmosphere would take a very strong hull and LOTS of rocket fuel. We don't have the technology for that yet, and I'm guessing the rocket fuel would have to be something other than chemical combustion.

Answer 5

Jupiter is a gas planet, and most of the gases are exceptionally toxic. Not to mention Jupiter's surface is covered by wind speeds in the hundreds of miles per hour, Doesn't matter if you can get there, there isnt any way to stand in 400 mph wind LOL

Answer 6

I think a man will stand on Jupiter before a man stands on dry land in some parts of New Orleans (because both will be impossible).

Answer 7

Man will stand on jupiters moons within 200 years for sure, but to stand on jupiter we have to overcome its huge gravity and its only gas anyway, so how could you stand on it. but its still a possibility for the more distant future.

Answer 8

At the center the gas is compressed into a solid by immense pressure...however I doubt if you would be conscious (or alive) to enjoy the feeling of being the first person to "stand" on Jupiter.

Answer 9

Jupiter is a gas planet, meaning that... wherever the surface is... its a LONG ways into the atmosphere (if there at all?). I think i've also heard that the surface would be a soupy consistancy, and not solid.


oh, and i think the gravity would kill a person and squish them down.
Creepy to think about. o_o

Answer 10

jupiter is not a terrestrial planet...its just a big ball of poisenous gasses (quite similar to the sun) i think venus is the best bet for a space walk after mars. mabye someday they will fly a ship throuh jupiter to studies i dont think there is anything to actually set foot on

Answer 11

Impossible to stand on Jupiter - it's made of gas!