Jupiter is a gas planet, if a person stood on the surface of Jupiter, would they fall straight down to the core?

Jupiter’s atmosphere is divided into four layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, thermosphere and exosphere. Each stage has its own effects and roles in the functioning of Jupiter.

Despite Jupiter is a gas planet, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a solid coreits core is mainly composed of iron and silicon, the volume of this core is approximately 2 to 3 times the size of the Earth’s core.

Due to its extremely high density, the mass of Jupiter’s core is also about 10 to 15 times greater than that of Earth’s core. Therefore, if you have a drill bit several times harder than a diamond, it still won’t be able to penetrate Jupiter’s core.

Although Jupiter is a gas planet, it nevertheless has a solid core.

Although Jupiter is a gas planet, it nevertheless has a solid core.

SO If you stood on the surface of Jupiter, could you fall to the core? It seems impossibleFirst of all Jupiter’s core has no clear boundaries, from the core of the soil towards the exterior, a progressive process of dilution takes place. The upper core consists of mixed rock particles and hydrogen, which gradually transform into a surrounding layer of liquid metallic hydrogen, on top of which is then liquid hydrogen.

The phase transition pressure of this liquid hydrogen is about 2 million atmospheres, and the phase transition temperature is about 10,000 K; and when the core temperature limit is about 36,000 K, the internal pressure can reach 3000 ~ 4000 GPa, which is 30 to 40 million atmospheres.

Liquid hydrogen turns into gaseous hydrogen, which makes up Jupiter’s atmosphere. Scientists consider the place with an atmospheric pressure of 1 bar, or a depth of about 1 Earth atmosphere, to be the surface of Jupiter, and the thickness from the upper layer to here is about 5,000 km. The main components of the upper atmosphere are 88-92% hydrogen and about 7-11% helium, and the remaining 1% include methane, water vapor, ammonia, silicon compounds, carbon, ethane, hydrogen sulfide, neon, oxygen, phosphine, filled with trace elements like sulfur.

Jupiter’s atmosphere is full of wind and clouds, the maximum speed of the storm can reach 150 meters per second

Jupiter’s atmosphere is full of wind and clouds, the maximum speed of the storm can reach 150 meters/second.

Jupiter’s atmosphere is divided into four layers, namely the troposphere, stratosphere, thermosphere and exosphere. The temperature of the atmosphere in the outermost layer is about 165K (-108 degrees Celsius), the process of gradually increasing the temperature inside, cooling and then increasing again. When reaching the heating layer, the temperature can reach 1000K. , and as it descends towards the stratosphere, the temperature drops to 200 K. As it descends, the pressure and temperature increase more and more, until the hydrogen phase changes to liquid hydrogen and the temperature reaches 10,000 KK

Jupiter’s atmosphere is full of wind and cloudsthe maximum speed of the storm can reach 150 meters/second, while the speed of a level 17 storm on Earth is only about 60 meters/second. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a giant storm that has existed for hundreds of years. Since Jupiter’s magnetic field is 14 times stronger than Earth’s, the lightning it causes is 10,000 times stronger than Earth’s and can tear apart and destroy almost anything.

This is the part of Jupiter’s environment that humans can understand. This knowledge does not rely on imagination. It was obtained by scientists after decades of scientific modeling based on countless data and images collected after numerous observations and explorations.

Jupiter’s magnetic field is 14 times stronger than Earth’s.

Jupiter’s magnetic field is 14 times stronger than Earth’s.

In such an environment, how could a person stand on Jupiter and how could they fall into its core? We can imagine that if a spacecraft sent a person to Jupiter and let them wear a spacesuit out of the cabin to freely fall to Jupiter, the process it could follow would be as follows:

If the spacesuit can withstand the test of high pressure and temperature, then theoretically, it could fall to a depth of 5,000 km. But during this process, the acceleration will become faster and faster, the friction temperature with Jupiter’s atmosphere will also become higher and higher, not to mention humans, even iron and steel cannot resist it, so during the fall here below, his body will be cut into pieces and burned.

If there is still a small remnant of this separation and combustion process that can reach the troposphere, it will be devastated again by storms and lightning, then completely integrated into Jupiter’s atmosphere, and finally merged into liquid hydrogen under increasing pressure and temperature without leaving a trace. trace.

Galileo – Jupiter probe.

Galileo – Jupiter probe.

Galileo, a probe launched by NASA, completed its mission to explore Jupiter beyond all expectations: in the early morning of September 22, 2003, it crashed into the largest planet in the solar system, as planned. During an eight-year solo exploration mission, 1,500 representatives from all walks of life involved in Galileo gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to put an end to it.

The Galileo probe weighs approximately 345 kg, the heat shield is 200 kg thick, and when it fell into Jupiter’s atmosphere at a speed of 170,000 km/h, or 47 km/s, it must have suffered extreme acceleration, with a rapid increase in temperature to reach 10,000 degrees Celsius. Under the influence of this high temperature and pressure, it splits and burns within minutes, disappearing without a trace and becoming a trace element in the atmosphere, the dense atmosphere of Jupiter and liquid hydrogen.

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