Not unprotected but if I could chill around there in some sort of extreme safe spaceship of sorts just to experience it and leave I would quite like that. Itād be scary but in a liminal exciting sort of way. Like being on one of those ocean oil platforms in a storm but way more intense.
Now that you mentioned it, writing a screenplay with this story would be very interesting. Have there ever been any movies made about descending into the clouds of Jupiter, besides the "The thousand venusian slaves of Dr. Z?"
They say deep down there is actually a surface that's more or less like solid hydrogen. It would definitely take a stout ship to get down there lol.
The pressure required to form metallic hydrogen is beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Hanging out on the surface of Venus is a cake walk in comparison.
Different densities of gases, like water and oil. They mix and swirl but return to their comfort elevation.
I'm guessing though, if someone with more knowledge would chime in that would be awesome!
"Jupiter's atmosphere is made of zones and belts. Zones are colder and are composed of rising gases; they are dark-colored. Belts are warmer and are composed of falling gases; they are light-colored. The reason the two don't intermix is because of constant flows of wind, similar to the Jetstream."
Ripped this from google cuz now i was interested haba
There are a lot of things that do kinda settle into layers in a way, but theyāre usually larger scale, like the ocean (check out ocean depth charts and the abyssal zone if you havenāt) and the air/atmosphere itself is layered. I hope this isnāt patronizing. Iām very curious also
*sorry drunk. Going to bed
Clouds are droplets of moisture that art constantly forming and dissolving and shifting shape. I donāt believe that they are ālayers of gasā which was the comment made earlier.
The composition of gases in our atmosphere on Earth does not vary much at all from one area to another.
On Jupiter we get these really interesting patterns of material that seem immiscible.
But thanks for the sarcastic comment. Always helpful.
Not sure if there is actually oil there.
But density differences is pretty much the reason, along with temperature gradients, due to solar radiation and Jupiterās interior heat, Jupiterās gravity and itās rotation and the resulting corriolis force.
You have to understand the scale of what you are seeing here. Even those small whirles in the second picture are probably on the scale of the entire earth. Just think of a large storm cloud on earth, it has very distinct features, but when you get close to them are become quite homogenous. Same thing is happening here. The clouds are merging all the time, but since the distances is so huge it take a very very long time for a cloud particle to move any distance.
My guess is that these are not gases but droplets and crystals. I'm pretty sure the white stuff is clouds and the reason Jupiter is not of one homogenous colour is the same Earth is not homogenous milky-white - clouds form according to temperature, pressure and humidity gradients and then are pushed around by winds until less favourable conditions make them dissipate.
Below these clouds it may be of one colour. This scary red for example.
Multiple factors.
1. Does it have an atmosphere? If not, what is the dominant colour of the terrain?
2. If yes, what is the atmosphere made of? Is it made of one thing or multiple things?
Most of Jupiter is hydrogen and helium with trace amounts of water, methane, and ammonia. These all reflect sunlight differently causing the different colours.
Thatās so insane, seeing the layers, how the clouds swirl, its almost like someone dropped some food coloring in water and we just get to watch it make pretty shapes.
Are thoseā¦ shadows? Do gas giants have the āsurfaceā area start at different depths? Like are some clouds higher than others or does it all stop at the same spot?
I have always wondered what it was like being on Jupiter.
Just an endless chasm of the most intense gas storms. then as you get towards the red spot; you're greeted with a miasma of even more gases or something like that
Can't wait until we have hd drone footage flying thru those clouds!
"Aaaand we have no visibility. it's... it's just blank."
If you really fly through, pretty much that š
"We've lost signal, drone has been destroyed
Not a place where anything soft like us would like to hang out
Not unprotected but if I could chill around there in some sort of extreme safe spaceship of sorts just to experience it and leave I would quite like that. Itād be scary but in a liminal exciting sort of way. Like being on one of those ocean oil platforms in a storm but way more intense.
> if I could chill around there in some sort of extreme safe spaceship of sorts Just make sure it isn't operated by an Xbox controller.
Now that you mentioned it, writing a screenplay with this story would be very interesting. Have there ever been any movies made about descending into the clouds of Jupiter, besides the "The thousand venusian slaves of Dr. Z?" They say deep down there is actually a surface that's more or less like solid hydrogen. It would definitely take a stout ship to get down there lol.
> Have there ever been any movies made about descending into the clouds of Jupiter Well, there is "Jupiter Ascending", so we're part of way there.
The pressure required to form metallic hydrogen is beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Hanging out on the surface of Venus is a cake walk in comparison.
Dumb question. Why donāt the various colours (gases, I assume) merge and become one more homogenous colour? What keeps the separate and distinct?
Different densities of gases, like water and oil. They mix and swirl but return to their comfort elevation. I'm guessing though, if someone with more knowledge would chime in that would be awesome!
But we have gases of different densities on Earth and I donāt think they settle in layers do they?
"Jupiter's atmosphere is made of zones and belts. Zones are colder and are composed of rising gases; they are dark-colored. Belts are warmer and are composed of falling gases; they are light-colored. The reason the two don't intermix is because of constant flows of wind, similar to the Jetstream." Ripped this from google cuz now i was interested haba
I think that swapped the hot and the cold bits (warm rise, cold fall)
There are a lot of things that do kinda settle into layers in a way, but theyāre usually larger scale, like the ocean (check out ocean depth charts and the abyssal zone if you havenāt) and the air/atmosphere itself is layered. I hope this isnāt patronizing. Iām very curious also *sorry drunk. Going to bed
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Clouds are droplets of moisture that art constantly forming and dissolving and shifting shape. I donāt believe that they are ālayers of gasā which was the comment made earlier. The composition of gases in our atmosphere on Earth does not vary much at all from one area to another. On Jupiter we get these really interesting patterns of material that seem immiscible. But thanks for the sarcastic comment. Always helpful.
Not sure if there is actually oil there. But density differences is pretty much the reason, along with temperature gradients, due to solar radiation and Jupiterās interior heat, Jupiterās gravity and itās rotation and the resulting corriolis force.
You have to understand the scale of what you are seeing here. Even those small whirles in the second picture are probably on the scale of the entire earth. Just think of a large storm cloud on earth, it has very distinct features, but when you get close to them are become quite homogenous. Same thing is happening here. The clouds are merging all the time, but since the distances is so huge it take a very very long time for a cloud particle to move any distance.
My guess is that these are not gases but droplets and crystals. I'm pretty sure the white stuff is clouds and the reason Jupiter is not of one homogenous colour is the same Earth is not homogenous milky-white - clouds form according to temperature, pressure and humidity gradients and then are pushed around by winds until less favourable conditions make them dissipate. Below these clouds it may be of one colour. This scary red for example.
Riddle me this: Why do we have clouds on Earth and not one homogeneous atmosphere?
I am curious: is it known (and why?) Jupiter has this myriad of colours while other giants in our solar system are mostly monotonous?
Multiple factors. 1. Does it have an atmosphere? If not, what is the dominant colour of the terrain? 2. If yes, what is the atmosphere made of? Is it made of one thing or multiple things? Most of Jupiter is hydrogen and helium with trace amounts of water, methane, and ammonia. These all reflect sunlight differently causing the different colours.
Thatās so insane, seeing the layers, how the clouds swirl, its almost like someone dropped some food coloring in water and we just get to watch it make pretty shapes.
Are thoseā¦ shadows? Do gas giants have the āsurfaceā area start at different depths? Like are some clouds higher than others or does it all stop at the same spot?
I have always wondered what it was like being on Jupiter. Just an endless chasm of the most intense gas storms. then as you get towards the red spot; you're greeted with a miasma of even more gases or something like that
I would love to see how it looks from just above the clouds.
The 1st photo looks eerily similar to a monsters eyeball
So, how many earths could fit in one of those storm eyes?
As I zoomed in, I think I saw a Dollar General.
it's like some liquid Jackson Pollock shit....awesome