I love planet Jupiter and I would ike to live there so I wonder about the conditions.
2007-02-05 03:17:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There is no life that we know of, and life as we know it can't exist there.
Jupiter has no "land" to live on -- it's got a metallic hydrogen core surrounded by a dense gaseous atmosphere. There is very little oxygen (certainly not enough to "breathe"), incredible atmospheric pressure that would crush any human, and very high temperatures not far below the outer limits of the atmosphere.
I love Jupiter too -- were it not for Jupiter acting as our solar system's cosmic vaccum cleaner, we might not be here. But sorry, you can't live there.
Now on one of Jupiter's moons, such as Europa...maybe :)
2007-02-05 03:28:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know why you ask Jupiter, out of all the other planets. NASA is looking for life in Mars right now, and no really has given much thought about Jupiter. Well the truth is I really dont know, but here's some interesting stuff.
If there is life on Jupiter, it should be really weird, because there is no ground to stand on, just gas. Second, the pressure is so enormous, oxygen would remain liquid. And the radiation in Jupiter would kill a human a thousand times over before he touched the ground/gas.
Hope it helped
2007-02-05 03:24:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jupiter has no solid surface; like the other 3 jovian planets, there is no "on" on Jupiter only "in"; it's gas all the way down, denser and denser. But I suspect there is a pretty good chance there might be microbial or even multi-cellular life in the clouds; there are regions where temperatures and pressures are Earth-like and there is an abundance of organic molecules, water and energy sources (lightning) to provide the spark of life and get it kick started... as well as a hell of a lot of volume, like 3 thousand times the atmospheric volume of Earth.
2007-02-05 23:02:26 · answer #3 · answered by stargazergurl22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not impossible that there is life on Jupiter. Chemicals are constantly being dredged up from the depths by turbulence in the atmosphere, acted upon by sunlight, and then dragged down to the depths. The flow of energy and entropy could, in principle, sustain life. Of course we don't know at present. Carl Segan speculated about "sentient gas bags".
You might enjoy the Science Fiction novel "The Algebraist" by Ian M. Banks.
2007-02-05 03:26:27 · answer #4 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not on Jupiter. But it looks like there is liquid water on one of Jupiter's moons - Europa. It's covered with ice und below that ice is a liquid ocean. There is a mission planned to search for live on Europa.
2007-02-05 03:29:17 · answer #5 · answered by Voice of Insanity 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no 'on' jupiter, jupiter is a ball of gass.
as for life, extremely unlikely since there is a LOT of gravety, no liquids, no oxygen
2007-02-05 03:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by mrzwink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carl Sagan proposed about lifeforms that reminds us of jellyfish living in the sky.
2016-02-03 04:32:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope, not that we (scientists) know of. lol jupiter... was this a random question? anyway my answer is no.
2007-02-05 04:30:01 · answer #8 · answered by ... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but possibly on its moon Europa.
2007-02-05 06:01:46 · answer #9 · answered by Belru Tytor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Likely not.
2007-02-05 03:21:06 · answer #10 · answered by OMGWTFBBQ!!1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋