What Would Happen If You Tried To Stand On Jupiter?

We are so used to picturing us humans on Earth ’s open ( and maybe shortly Mars ) that when we see a planet   like Jupiter , one of the first questions that comes to mind is " Can we stand on it ? "

Let ’s for a moment ignore the extreme conditions ( gravity , atmospherical press , gamey temperature , and winds ) that   are find on the giant satellite , and let ’s just descend through the atmosphere . What we ’d see is   a spectacle like no other .

Far beneath Jupiter ’s ambience is a mammoth sea of fluid metallic hydrogen , which would look and behave like hydrargyrum except that   hydrogen has 60 percent the density of weewee . So ,   you would have to sink   for tens of thou of kilometers to reach a hot , molten , rocky core that ’s peradventure satisfying .

The interior of Jupiter is not precisely mapped   – that is one of the scientific goals of theJuno mission , which has just reached Jupiter . The investigation will apply precise gravitational and electromagnetic measurements to map out what goes on underneath Jupiter ’s clouds .

I make love that the answer so far is not really comforting , so rent ’s drop the feigning of a magical commentator and let ’s dive into Jupiter with current engineering science .

But it ’s been 20 age , so lease ’s assume we can bear on down . At 500 kilometre ( 310 mile ) , the profile is almost completely go and the thick-skulled ammonia cloud swirl   all around us , with twist fastness of around 100 meter ( 330 feet ) per second .

Underneath the ammonia clouds , there are more water clouds andmore complex atmospheric effectsthat Juno will hopefully clear up . Current technology will have been pulverized by now , and our remains will now be traveling to a layer of supercritical liquid hydrogen   – something not quite a gas but not on the dot a liquid state either .

After about 2.5 hour of geographic expedition , we will   have reach the liquid metal hydrogen sea . Heavy elements might attain the center after many more minute of fall . So , you could n’t precisely stand on this sea . But below this , it ’s thought Jupiter may indeed have a rocky nub , perhaps jolly similar to mundane major planet . Juno will help serve this question during its mission .

Jupiter has most of the planetary mass of the Solar System , and could easily fit all the other planet in its interior . There ’s a reason why it is the worldwide tycoon of the Solar System .