Jupiter is a gaseous planet, so can we walk through Jupiter like we walk through air?

If we take a spaceship to Jupiter, we will find that we simply can not find a place to land, so many friends brainstormed a problem, Jupiter is not a big balloon. Open this spaceship directly through the line, you know the air on Earth can not be seen and touched, we can come and go in the air, doing a variety of free activities. And Jupiter is a gaseous planet, that's true, but we go through Jupiter as through the air is impossible, why I say so?

We can take a thrilling trip into the interior of Jupiter to see what kind of place it is inside. Let's start by looking at what kind of a place Jupiter has in the solar planetary system, where it is the largest planet. How big is Jupiter? In the solar system, Jupiter is second only to the Sun, with a mass of 1 thousandth of the Sun, and although Jupiter's mass is not comparable to that of the Sun, its mass is 2.5 times the sum of the masses of the other seven planets in the solar system, and Jupiter's average diameter is 139,822 kilometers, which is 1316 times the size of our Earth and three hundred and eighteen times the mass of our Earth. If we put the Earth and Jupiter together, it probably looks like this.

When we come to Jupiter in a spaceship, we will be deeply shocked by it, perhaps because of fear, perhaps because of excitement, in the sky above Jupiter's atmosphere, we will see the east-west direction of Jupiter's colorful stripes into a fast-moving storm, whistling in front of us, especially the Great Red Spot storm, its diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers can easily fit an Earth, it has been in Jupiter It has been raging on Jupiter for at least three hundred years, and huge it is like a giant eye of Jupiter staring at us.

Now do we fly into Jupiter in our spaceship, or do we rush to escape from Jupiter? It's not too late to leave, now we're going to go through Jupiter's atmosphere, Jupiter's atmosphere is the thickest in the solar system, the Earth's atmosphere at the bottom is the surface of the land and ocean, and Jupiter itself has no solid surface, its atmosphere which has a bottom ah? Therefore, scientists studying Jupiter usually consider the bottom of Jupiter's atmosphere to be 10 times the atmospheric pressure of the Earth's surface. Even so, the thickness of Jupiter's atmosphere is 5000 kilometers, crossing Jupiter's atmosphere will face a huge risk, because there is a spacecraft and Jupiter's atmosphere friction generated by the heat and pressure may make the spacecraft collapse.

Galileo Jupiter probe has released a sub-probe into the atmosphere of Jupiter, to safely enter the atmosphere of Jupiter, the probe's protective heat shield accounted for half of the total weight of the probe. The probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere at a speed of 48 km per second, enduring an acceleration of 400 G and a pressure equivalent to 14 Earth atmospheric pressures, and a surface temperature of 780 degrees Celsius from friction with Jupiter's atmosphere.

The fully armed Jupiter Atmosphere Probe lasted for an hour in Jupiter's atmosphere and was finally crushed by Jupiter's atmosphere, and our spacecraft, after entering Jupiter's atmosphere, will face the same problem. When there is this spacecraft deep into the interior of Jupiter, it will face higher and higher pressure. Jupiter's atmosphere becomes denser and denser because of the gradual increase in pressure, and eventually, the hydrogen on Jupiter becomes liquid, and our spaceship, if it is not crushed at this point, will plunge headlong into the liquid hydrogen ocean inside Jupiter, turning from a spaceship into a submarine, and if this spaceship continues toward the core of Jupiter's interior, it will find its way to the bottom of the liquid hydrogen ocean, where is The core of Jupiter.

Scientists are still unclear what the characteristics of Jupiter's core, it is usually believed that Jupiter has a rocky core, Jupiter's core mass is equivalent to 15 to 40 Earth, the diameter of the equivalent of two Earth, and the core of Jupiter is a rather scary place, where the temperature can be as high as 20,000 to 30,000 degrees Celsius, the pressure can be up to 100 million to 300 million Earth's atmospheric pressure, human spaceship, if you come to the core of Jupiter, it is destined to can not get out.

Conclusion

From this thrilling trip to the interior of Jupiter, we want to go through the atmosphere of Jupiter as through the air, which is just an unrealistic fantasy.