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Jupiter is so cool. Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter a
by pure_ambition 9y ago
Jupiter is so cool.
Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s.
Jupiter also is believed to be a gravitational shield that protects us from asteroids and comets.
Jupiter is also Home to some of the coolest Moons in our solar system, my favorites being Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (the Galilean moons), in that order.
One question I’ve always had and hope to learn one day: what the heck is Jupiter’s “surface” like? I know it’s believe to be essentially layers of metallic hydrogen, but what the heck does that even mean? What would it look like? So interesting.
- mbell 9y ago> Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s. It's also shrinking at an increasing rate and may be gone within a couple decades.
- GaltMidas 9y agoMaybe it's like Earth's liquid iron mantle?
- dperfect 9y agoIt might not exactly answer your question, but you may enjoy this description of what it would be like to fall into Jupiter: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5041 https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5041
- ghostDancer 9y agoThanks, that link is fantastic, informative and entertaining at the same time.
- JacobAldridge 9y agoOur local cafe recently re-opened as Kallisto; when I first went in, I set up a loyalty card and the owner said 'The system needs a surname, but I discourage using your real personal details.' So I entered myself as 'Jacob Ganymede'; we've been friends ever since.
- psergeant 9y agoOne way I know I had an ok childhood was that when I found out the gas giants didn’t have a surface I could stand on, it was a notable and memorable low point
- maxerickson 9y agoI think analogy breaks down. There's probably not any light at the transition between the liquid and metal layers of hydrogen, the liquid layer is thousands of kilometers thick (the deepest ocean is ~11 km). And it's sort of hot. Not stove top pan hot, 10x hotter than that. Oh and the pressure is a couple million times Earth surface pressure.
- vkhorikov 9y agoCheck this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMCrPvtN1G8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMCrPvtN1G8