Jupiter??????

Question

1) can a spacecraft stand on the surface of the Jupiter?
2) where on Jupiter has a solid surface just like Earth's?
3)Jupiter is made up of mostly gas. What exactly do they mean by "gas" because i just picture that gas is similar to "steam".

please explain in details!!! thank you!

Answer 1

Probably no surface (check first link). Therefore, no "standing". Air is a gas.
Pressure increases as you go deeper in Jupiter's atmosphere. Humans would be crushed before reaching the interface where the gas turns to liquid (liquefied by the pressure). Some say that there might be a solid nucleus (metallic hydrogen).

Nasa says: "the inner layers of hydrogen in Jupiter's atmosphere, under the pressure of the atmosphere above, may have formed into a layer of what is called liquid metallic hydrogen. Not exactly an ocean, not exactly atmosphere".


PS: Good answer, cfpops. I especially liked to read (in Wikipedia) how Galileo sent an atmospheric probe that was crushed by pressure while still high in the atmosphere.

Answer 2

As others have explained, Jupiter is a gas planet, and does not have a solid surface, or at least that surface is really really deep below the gaseous parts.

As you think of steam, the gases that gas planets, such as Jupiter, consist of are somewhat similar. The reason why the gas is in the form of a sphere, a planet, is because it's own gravitational pull keeps the gas tight together. All matter has a gravitational pull, not just solid material like the rocks Earth is made of.

The Sun is also basically a yet larger ball of gas, only it looks rather different due to it's incandescence. Incidentally, both Jupiter and the Sun contain mostly hydrogen and a smaller amount of helium.

Answer 3

Juptier is mostly made of gas, however it isn't like steam. As you take a plunge into the atmosphere it is thousnds of mile of gases such as methane, ethane, hydrogen. The gas becomes much more dense as you go deeper and deeper because there is so much gas above you and even gases have mass. Jupiter and Saturn alike do have a solid core but it isn't like earth. It consist of what is called mettalic hydrogen. At this depth the pressure is so great it causes the gas atoms and molecules to move around at at super fast rate thus generating a ton of heat. This intense heat and pressure compress them into a solid core. In fact some astronomers believe that if Jupiter and Saturn were a Several times larger the condition could have led to begin the fusion process and they could have been stars.
As to your question about a spacecraft, it would have to be quite a sturdy machine because it would have to survive winds up to 400 mph and also many of the corrosive gases in the atmosphere. Also as it took the plunge it would undergo pressures greater than at the deepest points of Earths oceans. Regardless, even if it did make it to the "surface" the clouds are so thick no signal could penatrate.

Answer 4

There is a great article on Jupiter on Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

"Jupiter is composed of a relatively small rocky core, surrounded by metallic hydrogen, with further layers of liquid hydrogen and gaseous hydrogen. There is no clear boundary or surface between these different phases of hydrogen; the conditions blend smoothly from gas to liquid as one descends."

1. No surface to "stand on"
2. nowhere
3. although steam is the gas phase of water, here we are talking hot gases like hydrogen, helium, etc.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

I believe that if a probe could SOMEHOW maintain liquid pressure without imploding (i don't know, maybe 4 foot thick metal walls), it would eventually achieve buoyancy. It is possible that that would be hundreds or thousands of miles inside the atmosphere of Jupiter.

There is no definitive edge between a liquid and solid surface in Jupiter. The gaseous atmosphere of Jupiter just keeps getting thicker and thicker, until it becomes liquid gases like methane, hydrogen and helium (they behave just like liquid water at 1 bar, but inside that pressure, they might be more like gel, the deeper you go). Then deeper down you get heavier gases, like liquid oxygen, etc...

Eventually the liquids get more and more gelatinous and then plastic-like. At these depths the pressure is hundreds of thousands of times that of Earth's atmosphere. The liquids eventually get glass like and then act like solid metal. Seething with pressure and heat. Jupiter's core is hypothesized to be metallic hydrogen.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

1) no, because Jupiter is made up of gases and the solid part is too hot
2) te core
3)gas is pictured as steam in different colors and amounts