Thread: Little Red Spot

Quote: Originally Posted by SugarCoat Actually they did send multiple probes into it. They never survive to the center, usually get crushed by its gravity How can they get crushed by gravity ? Jupiter isn't a black hole! (Actually, even black holes don't kill by crushing, but rather by stretching stuff out so it rips into atomic slices/pieces...) If we assume the probes get killed before they reach so deep down into the planet that...

If there is any life on Jupiter as we would recognise it, it would be floating around in the vast atmosphere. And considering the huge volume, that's actually quite probable. But nobody knows. As Arjan said, we've only looked at the very surface so far, so it's anybodies guess what's beneath that shallow layer.

if i was a jupitonian, i'd make it look like an accident too. you DO NOT want humans nosing around, im here to tell ya. i bet they look alot like mice.

Quote: Originally Posted by nutball The current thinking is that the core of Jupiter is comprised of metallic hydrogen, not iron. Metallic hydrogen? Im going to have to wiki that one. Also why wouldnt the winds reach all the way down to the surface? Any guesses how thich the atmosphere is? More questions: -are there any plans currently to send probes into jupiter? -any probes return data from inside jupiters atmosphere? Anyone mind taking a...

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There's nothing little about anything on Jupiter Quote: Originally Posted by Guden Oden Jupiter doesn't have terrain per se, afaik it's all gas and liquid apart from a (possibly liquid, due to the planet being a brown star) iron core. The current thinking is that the core of Jupiter is comprised of metallic hydrogen, not iron.

As I understand it, even though Jupiter has a solid core, it does not have a meaningful surface per se; rather, as you get deeper, the substance of the planet gets more and more solid in a rather continuous manner. A (somewhat silly) analogy would be a glass rod that is heated at one end until it melts; in such a glass rod, there is no sharp border between the solid and the molten sections; similarly Jupiter has no sharp border between gas and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cartoon Corpse is it possible though, that there is a layer of gas and a solid planetlike surface further down encompassing a mantle and core (earthlike). is mars like that (earthlike) too? and the scientists are just wrong? or is this established fact regarding jupitor? can they bounce radio waves or lasers off it and prove its just gas and a core like you say? They pulled up its skirt and checked years ago....

One of my friends did work on metallic Hydrogen for his PhD. Its an amazing experiment, but 11 years into his PhD, and exhausted of setbacks I think he got a little tired of waiting for it to finalize and defended a draft/theory paper on it instead. It is possibly the hardest experiment(s) to do from a technical and engineering standpoint in all of physics, despite the fact that a lot is known from a theoretical standpoint.

It'd pretty daunting to see this upclose Quote: Little Red Spot is actually about the size of Earth yikes... Does it actually have a solid core or is it just a ball of gas that is somehow kept together (how?)?