once you go low enough you should just end up in a big sea of liquid hydrogen
Which is a thin layer over the metallic hydrogen, which goes mostly down to the (theorized) solid core. But why go down there?
Not to mention the huge amounts of radiations you’d be subjected to
You’d probably be much safer from radiation than even at home on earth. Jupiter has a massive magnetic field and so it would shield you from the sun’s radiation. Since it’s a gas giant, not a star, it’s not emitting any radiation.
The storms would definitely be an issue though, as would the gravity. But, maybe there’s a place where the storms aren’t as bad? Maybe the center of the Great Red Spot is like the eye of a hurricane on Earth and is relatively calm.
Whenever people “land” on gas giants in Sci-Fi, it’s floating cities. That makes sense because there’s no “surface” at any reasonable survivable pressure. There isn’t even a liquid surface, even though there’s a liquid hydrogen layer, it just gradually changes from gas to liquid as the pressure increases.
A floating city is still probably an impossibility based on the violence of the atmosphere, but the temperatures and pressures of the top of the atmosphere really aren’t too bad. It’s just the weather and the gravity that would be a problem (oh, and of course that the atmosphere is not only poisonous but corrosive). But, that can all be hand-waved away for some fun sci-fi floating city building.
Yeah, I was thinking about going into a gas giant, walking on it and exploring it. It didn’t occur to me they were referring to Bespin-like floating cities
At what depth?
At extreme depths, but why go that deep?
Gas giants are mostly cold.
Which is a thin layer over the metallic hydrogen, which goes mostly down to the (theorized) solid core. But why go down there?
You’d probably be much safer from radiation than even at home on earth. Jupiter has a massive magnetic field and so it would shield you from the sun’s radiation. Since it’s a gas giant, not a star, it’s not emitting any radiation.
The storms would definitely be an issue though, as would the gravity. But, maybe there’s a place where the storms aren’t as bad? Maybe the center of the Great Red Spot is like the eye of a hurricane on Earth and is relatively calm.
Whenever people “land” on gas giants in Sci-Fi, it’s floating cities. That makes sense because there’s no “surface” at any reasonable survivable pressure. There isn’t even a liquid surface, even though there’s a liquid hydrogen layer, it just gradually changes from gas to liquid as the pressure increases.
A floating city is still probably an impossibility based on the violence of the atmosphere, but the temperatures and pressures of the top of the atmosphere really aren’t too bad. It’s just the weather and the gravity that would be a problem (oh, and of course that the atmosphere is not only poisonous but corrosive). But, that can all be hand-waved away for some fun sci-fi floating city building.
Yeah, I was thinking about going into a gas giant, walking on it and exploring it. It didn’t occur to me they were referring to Bespin-like floating cities