If earth and Jupiter swapped places would Jupiter be inhabitable?

Answer 1

Well, there's no reason on why Jupiter isn't inhabitable now. Though at its current state, no humans have ever seen any solid surface on Jupiter, also Jupiter's atmosphere is quite toxic to humans and can easily crush humans.



If Jupiter was placed into Earth's orbit, it's quite likely Jupiter's moons will develop more Earth-like enviroment.

However, it's unlikely Jupiter will be still a gas giant, since the solar winds are still quite strong at Earth's orbit. These solar winds will strip Jupiter's atmosphere very fast that it will lose its mass, making it smaller and smaller, then losing its moons.


There are planets outside the Solar System that have Jupiter size mass and orbit very near their stars, it's possible they are very large terrestrial planet or very giant space colonies.

Official astronomers however think they're gas giants despite the fact solar winds will strip these planets, since they don't think terrestrial planets can get that big, or even think that very giant space colonies are currently orbiting distant stars.

Answer 2

Probably not, Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface.

It has been speculated that there might be life in the atmosphere of Jupiter but we have no evidence of it (and it wouldn't be the first place that I'd look for life either) but you wouldn't be living there.

If Jupiter had larger moons (say one about the size of the Earth) then they could be inhabitable but none of the moons of Jupiter are really big enough for that.

Answer 3

Nope. The pressures are too great due to the dense gases.

There is most likely a solid surface but the gaseous atmosphere is so huge and pressures so great our probes have been crushed before ever seeing an actually core or surface.

Also the atmosphere is highly toxic. In addition, one thing that many people don't know is that Jupiter is very close to being a "Brown Dwarf" star but never ignited because it was just short of the mass it needed to cause ignition.

Answer 4

Most likely not. Jupiter is a giant ball of gas, and it would probably still be a gas giant if it were closer to the sun. It would therefore still be uninhabitable.

Answer 5

If you mean it would be able to support our life, no. It has the wrong gas. Plus, Jupiter would expand away, like dry ice in water.

Answer 6

No.

Jupiter, unlike the earth, has no solid surface to stand on: it is a gas giant, and the pressures would kill you even so.

Answer 7

Jupiter is little more than hydrogen and helium.

Answer 8

No. The dynamics are all wrong for that sort of planet, wrong gasses, wrong densities (the atmosphere would crush you instantly if you were on the surface), temperatures would be awful . . . No, can't work. Sorry.

Answer 9

thia concetp should be called as reverse imagination.

Answer 10

nope