Maxey
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So easy, yet still funny.The real money shot will come when we probe Uranus.
So easy, yet still funny.The real money shot will come when we probe Uranus.
Beautiful. Cant wait until we send humans there to colonize it.
I answered a very similar question to this a few months ago, so copy-paste:
For the interior of Jupiter, let's imagine taking a descent from cloud-tops down to the core based on our best guesses of what lies below.
You start falling through the high, white ammonia clouds starting at 0.5 atmospheres, where the Sun is still visible. It's very cold here, -150 C (-240 F). Your rate of descent is roughly 2.5x that of Earth, since gravity is much stronger on Jupiter.
You emerge out the bottom of the cloud deck somewhere near 1 atmosphere. It's still somewhat bright, with sunlight filtering through the ammonia clouds much like an overcast day on Earth. Below, you see the second cloud-deck made of roiling brown ammonium hydrosulphide, starting about 2 atmospheres.
As you fall through the bottom of this second cloud deck, it's now quite dark, but warming up as the pressure increases. Beneath you are white water clouds forming towering thunderstorms, with the darkness punctuated by bright flashes of lightning starting somewhere around 5 atmospheres. As you pass through this third and final cloud-deck it's now finally warmed up to room temperature, if only the pressure weren't starting to crush you.
Emerging out the bottom, the pressure is now intense, and it's starting to get quite warm, and there's nothing but the dark abyss of ever-denser hydrogen gas beneath you. You fall through this abyss for a very, very long time.
You eventually start to notice that the atmosphere has become thick enough that you can swim through it. It's not quite liquid, not quite gas, but a "supercritical fluid" that shares properties of each. Your body would naturally stop falling and settle out somewhere at this level, where your density and the atmosphere's density are equal. However, you've brought your "heavy boots" and continue your descent.
After a very, very long time of falling through ever greater pressure and heat, there's no longer complete darkness. The atmosphere is now warm enough that it begins to glow - red-hot at first, then yellow-hot, and finally white-hot.
You're now 30% of the way down, and have just hit the metallic region at 2 million atmospheres of pressure. Still glowing white-hot, hydrogen has become so dense as to become a liquid metal. It roils and convects, generating strong magnetic fields in the process.
Most materials passing through this deep, deep ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen would instantly dissolve, but thankfully you've brought your unobtainium spacesuit...which is good, because it's now 10,000 C (18,000 F). Falling ever deeper through this hot glowing sea of liquid metal, you reflect that a mai tai would really hit the spot right about now.
After a very, very, very long time falling through this liquid metal ocean, you're now 80% of the way down...when suddenly your boots hit a solid "surface", insomuch as you can call it a surface. Beneath you is a core weighing in at 25 Earth-masses, made of rock and exotic ices that can only exist under the crushing pressure of 25 million atmospheres.
You check your cell phone to tell you friends about your voyage...but sadly, it melted in the metallic ocean - and besides, they only have 3G down here.
People are going to shit their pants when Jupiter turns out to be a dormant space amoeba and starts feeding on other planets.
Soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs
People are going to shit their pants when Jupiter turns out to be a dormant space amoeba and starts feeding on other planets.
Soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs
damn, I forgot how huge Jupiter is compared to where we live
Jupiter has shrugged off worse than anything we could ever throw at it
The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet impact
"Over the next six days, 21 distinct impacts were observed, with the largest coming on July 18 at 07:33 UTC when fragment G struck Jupiter. This impact created a giant dark spot over 12,000 km across, and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6,000,000 megatons of TNT 600 times the world's nuclear arsenal"
Holy shit!
Than we nuke Jupiter....if thats even possible.
The real money shot will come when we probe Uranus.
Beautiful. Cant wait until we send humans there to colonize it.
Holy shit!
So this high tech interplanetary space probe built by NASA sends grey photos? I'm confused... why not in color?
Huh? You implying taking pictures in a grey scale is better for research than a color one? I'm not following. And yes I'm an ignorant so I don't understand.Yeah, not like it was built for scientific research or anything.
Huh? You implying taking pictures in a grey scale is better for research than a color one? I'm not following. And yes I'm an ignorant so I don't understand.
Huh? You implying taking pictures in a grey scale is better for research than a color one? I'm not following. And yes I'm an ignorant so I don't understand.
Huh? You implying taking pictures in a grey scale is better for research than a color one? I'm not following. And yes I'm an ignorant so I don't understand.
damn, I forgot how huge Jupiter is compared to where we live
And yet you can fit all the other planets in between the Earth and the Moon.Pretty sure that scale is wrong, too. You should be able to fit three earths into the circumference of the dark spot, while the scaling of the image suggests that you'd be able to fit about one earth into it.
So yeah, Jupiter is fucking enormous.
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Yeeeaaaa...about that, a few small issues that prevent that from ever being a thing.
- No solid land mass
- Jupiter's wind speeds even at the slowest parts parts of the planet are in the 100s of mph.
- Jupiter's gravity (24.79 m/s²) would be a huge burden on an average weight man. Someone who weighs 100 pounds on earth is 252 pounds on Jupiter and it just gets worse and that's on top of not having a place to actually stand on.
And yet you can fit all the other planets in between the Earth and the Moon.
this is one of those things I had to look up when I first heard it. and yeah it's true more or less.
i like that pic because it gives proper scale. there's like, what, 3 earth-widths in the Great Spot on Jupiter alone?
space is... a lot of empty space
Yeah that is incredible. Shoemaker Levi would have wrecked Earth for sure. I love that Jupiter is like Earths guardian against so many comets and asteroids.One of the things that makes me feel okay about getting old is that we're going to see so much amazing progress in space stuff.
The gif of the asteroid hitting Jupiter is incredible.
Jupiter is Earth's rim protector.Jupiter's massive gravitational pull attracts all kinds of crap. It has probably saved us from extinction multiple times by slinging away comets and asteroids that could've been on a collision course to Earth.
Jupiter has shrugged off worse than anything we could ever throw at it
The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet impact
"Over the next six days, 21 distinct impacts were observed, with the largest coming on July 18 at 07:33 UTC when fragment G struck Jupiter. This impact created a giant dark spot over 12,000 km across, and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6,000,000 megatons of TNT (600 times the world's nuclear arsenal)"
So this high tech interplanetary space probe built by NASA sends grey photos? I'm confused... why not in color?
And yet you can fit all the other planets in between the Earth and the Moon.