What would happen if you went to Jupiter?

Question

Apparently, since its liquid water, you can ride a boat or something right? My reference links says no? Whaaaa?

What would happen, basically, if you went/landed/drowned/WHATEVER on Jupiter?

(And can you state some interesting facts about Jupiter and all the other planets like Mars and Saturn or something? Just for fun :3 Astronomy is cool)

OMG PEOPLE

I KNOW I'D DIE BEFORE I LAND

I'M JUST SAYING

I make it SOMEHOW and land.. What would happen?

Eh? Not water? The referenced webbie said so D:

@ Dan S

I'm sorry. I stopped reading at the second paragraph. PLEASE don't get complicated (And I posted this before I read the whole thing)

If you get complicated, can you be like Simplified Wiki? :D I'm a bit of a tard :S

Answer 1

sorry there is ZERO water on jupiter.

if you made it into jupiters "air" you would continue to sink into it slowly.

like falling into a cloud that could "catch you"

but you'd keep falling slowly. eventually there would be so much thick air above you, it would crush you.

Answer 2

Well you'd also get blown around ridiculously I would say like a frisbee but probably alot worse the winds there get over 400 mph. Not to mention you'd definately get fried by the lightning that can whip around the whole planet it's a massive lightning storm when you enter Jupiter as well as heating cooling affects. I mean this as in the outside gasses are going to be really cold and when you start getting closer its going to start getting extremley hot how hot exactly? well try the surface of the sun hot. Theirs also liquid metallic substances within the atmosphere alongside the gasses you're probably already dead from the core know one really knows if it's solid or liquid yet that's why scientist are sending a probe there to check more in depth. My opinion if you were to go inside Jupiter you'd probably be dead before getting even a mile inside it's atmosphere.

Answer 3

I wonder where you got the idea was liquid water. Jupiter is not liquid water. Its too cold at Jupiter's distance from the sun for liquid water. Jupiter is a gas giant - what we see are the tops of very thick clouds of mostly hydrogen and helium, with some methane and ammonia gas.
Go deeper and it gets thicker and starts to get warmer, and the pressure goes up (like diving into the deep part of the ocean).
At Jupiter's core is a small very hot sphere of liquid hydrogen under immense pressure.
If you could stand on the tops of Jupiter's clouds, you'd be at around -150 degrees Celsius. And you'd weigh 5 times what you do on Earth. If you tried to touch down on the surface, you'd be crushed by the pressure, weigh over twice what you do on Earth, and be baked long before you got there.

As for interesting facts, I'll leave that up to you. Astronomy is interesting, but even more so when you learn facts for yourself.

Answer 4

I'd be closer to Uranus.

Also, it's a giant gas ball so there wouldn't be much solid ground to land on. No breathable air. I don't think you find liquid water. The temp. is well below freezing if there were water, but not likely. And you'd be very heavy due to the higher gravity.

Other than that, I'd love to take the trip. Maybe view it from a safe distance?

Answer 5

Not good Jupiter doesn't contain any water it contains heavy noxious gases that would asphyxiate you and the minute you landed on Jupiter you would sink into the clouds of gas and be crushed to death by it's gravity.

Answer 6

First of all, you wouldn't land, simply because there is nothing to land on. Jupiter is called a gas giant for a reason. Its made almost entirely out of poisonous gases. Astronomers are suspecting the core to be made out of dense rock. No one is sure because we can only penetrate a minuscule fraction of its atmosphere. And as for the liquid water question, where are you even getting that statement from?

Answer 7

I Journey to Jupiter would be interesting, but without radiation shielding you wouldn’t be feeling that well in a few days. However, that doesn’t matter since your goal is to approach the surface.

First you would enter the hydrogen clouds of the upper atmosphere. You would see strange colors and bands of gas with various gaps. The clouds would be energetic and fast moving because of the high winds. As you go deeper into the atmosphere you would start to see huge lightning storms with forks of lightning running from cloud to cloud even ones miles away.

As dip lower into the atmosphere the chemical analyzers on the hull of your spacecraft would start to pick up different gases like helium, ether, ethane, and a wide range of others. These wisps of gas would be organized by strata with the heaviest at the lower levels. Since there are no life forms and no solid objects in the atmosphere your radar would be clear, with occasionally static from the lightening. As you continue deeper into the chemical soup your descent rate would slow and it would start to get bumpy. Now the gas has enough mass to move your spacecraft around and you would be buffeted by hurricane winds.

If you were lucky you might see some sort of space debris falling through the atmosphere. The meteor would leave a fiery trail, but despite the huge amount of flammable gas there isn’t enough free oxygen for anything to ignite. Getting deeper and deeper your vision would start to decrease as the gas gets thicker and less light is allowed to break through.

Your radar would pick up some sort of solid object below you, but it wouldn’t have much form. By now the pressures would be huge and you might hear the thick walls of your spacecraft creaking as the pressure tries to crush it. As you got deeper and deeper into the atmosphere the pressure would win and you would finally implode; which would prove fatal as your body would be crushed.

Your corpse and that of the dead spacecraft would continue to fall toward the center getting crushed tighter and tighter as you fall. You remains would be mixed in with the mess and crushed beyond recognition.

At some point your corpse would reach the center. We have no idea what is going on there or how deep down it is. However the few metals would have worked there way down here forming various layers of material. The incoming supply of meteors and comets would insure that something would be there; we have no idea what it would be though. It would probably be a featureless round sphere of metal and metallic rock.

There wouldn't be any water vapor or very much liquid; however near the core the temperatures could be hot enough to turn some of the gas into plasma.

Jupiter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
Jupier's Moons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s_natural_satellites
Saturn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
Uranus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus

Answer 8

what?? jupiter is not liquid water. jupiter doesnt even have land or water. it MIGHT have a rocky core, besides that its ALL gas. no water. and if it did have a rocky core you would be crushed by the gravity and by the atmospheric pressure.

Answer 9

jupiter isnt liquid water

Answer 10

you cannot live on jupiter
if you wernt crushed by the gravity first you would drown