What If Jupiter Had Mountains?

Over 300 times as massive, a million times greater scary, and eleven times broader than Earth. What if Jupiter wasn't a gas giant at all? What if it were a rock giant instead? What would its surface look like? What could make this World habitable? What if you tried to walk on it? This might occur, and here's what would happen if Jupiter was a rocky planet. Jupiter appears to be a beautiful ball of swirling clouds, but it's a gaseous hell on its interior. What if things took another path for the king of Jupiter is approximately four and a half billion years old? It began as a whirling disc of gas and dust that eventually developed into a fairly large planetary core. Over time, Jupiter's core grew, drawing in more and more rock, ice, and metal, but Jupiter wasn't going to evolve into a rocky planet because of its enormous appetite for gas. Instead, Jupiter's gravitational solid pull drew in massive quantities of hydrogen and helium, shaping it into the majestic gas giant.

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We'll maintain Jupiter's current size in the Jupiter apocalypse, but it'll be all rock and no gas instead of the present mixture of gas and rock. Considering that Jupiter is already nearly twice as heavy as all the other continents in the solar system united in its gas-giant state, this World might be four times more serious. With this immense mass would come an unfathomably powerful gravitational pull. You wouldn't be able to walk on Rocky Jupiter because the gravitational force on your body would be so strong that it would break your bones. Your heart would race out of your chest from pumping blood, and as blood accumulated in your lower body, you would experience lightheadedness and dizziness. Rocky Jupiter's gravity would now be four times stronger than before, approximately ten times greater than the gravity you and I experience on Earth. Rocky Jupiter is enormous and could have retained a lot of heat from its formation, so even though it is much farther from the Sun than Earth, Rocky Jupiter might have surface temperatures identical to our planet and may even have hot oceans. Despite being outside the Solar System's habitable zone, Rocky Jupiter wouldn't be a cold world. Jupiter could have a highly thick atmosphere due to its gravity. Planets with thick atmospheres have, yeah, We won't be swimming there because the oceans could be 200 degrees Celsius hotter than Earth's and still be liquid due to the high atmospheric pressure, which also means that even if you could walk on this World, you would not want to breathe the air there. Massive gas: Since rocky Jupiter's atmosphere is primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, it wouldn't be breathable, and there would be lightning storms. Jupiter already experiences powerful storms in its clouds, and rocky Jupiter wouldn't be any different. However, if this planet also had active eruptions spewing ash and lava, lightning storms would intensify. Volcanoes might benefit the rocky World though the gases there might be breathable. In either case, it's bad news for you. Not only would Earth be knocked out of its orbit, but the entire solar system would become chaotic. Planets, as well as moons, could be knocked off course, many of them colliding with each other, and things would get messy. All we could do was hope that nothing would crash into Earth, but guess what? Nothing did crash into Earth.