The atmosphere of a gas giant!

[Acepilot]

Anyone here entered the atmosphere of a gas giant?
(e.g. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)

For some people (like me) it bothers them as to what it's like in there :blink:. I've never entered a gas giants atmosphere but it does seem terrifying if it was real. :weird:

Anyone have any pictures of the interior of the gas giants?

 

[eveningsky339]

I've seen a video on youtube of an Orbiternaut entering Jupiter's atmosphere aboard the DGIV. It was not pretty.

 

[Coolhand]

it's very dangerous just getting close to one of the giants apparently, they've intense magnetic fields around them and its meant to be a very nasty high radiation environment, so you'd need to be shielded somehow way before you got into the atmosphere - in real life of course

 

[Acepilot]

I've seen a video on youtube of an Orbiternaut entering Jupiter's atmosphere aboard the DGIV. It was not pretty.

I think you're reffering to the video made by Tex called "Final Flight"

 

[n122vu]

I think you're reffering to the video made by Tex called "Final Flight"

Actually, I think he means this one:

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

I remember how terrifyingly hot my DGIV got just in the outermost part of the atmosphere! I've also tried to enter it with max fuel and engine power settings with turbo and hover engines to try slowing myself to within only a few Km's per sec before getting to the atmosphere. But charcoal was the result again. I'll try saturn next.

 

[Tex]

I think you're reffering to the video made by Tex called "Final Flight"

Final Flight is a film by me, but I didn't enter the atmosphere of Jupiter...

 

[Acepilot]

Final Flight is a film by me, but I didn't enter the atmosphere of Jupiter...

Oh sorry Tex I forgot which video I had seen. :lol:



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Actually, I think he means this one:

YouTube - Orbiter Deltaglider IV: Into Jupiters atmosphere

Watched the video. Turned out very bad for the astronauts. Very cool video. :speakcool:

 

[RangerPL]

The Galileo Atmospheric Probe had entered Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995. According to Wikipedia, this did not go well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)

This was by far the most difficult atmospheric entry ever attempted; the probe had to withstand 230 g's and the probe's 152 kg heat shield made up almost half of the probe's total mass, and lost 80 kg during the entry. NASA built a special laboratory, the Giant Planet Facility to simulate the heat load, which was similar to that of an ICBM-style straight-down reentry through a thermonuclear fireball.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)#cite_note-28 It then deployed its 2.5-meter (8 ft) parachute, and dropped its heat shield.

The probe didn't last long.

Total data returned from the probe was about 3.5 megabits. The probe stopped transmitting before the line of sight link with the orbiter was cut. The likely proximal cause of the final probe failure was overheating, which sensors indicated before signal loss. The atmosphere as the probe descended was somewhat more turbulent and hotter than expected. The probe was eventually completely destroyed as it descended further inside Jupiter. The parachute would have melted first, roughly 30 minutes later, then the aluminum components after another 40 minutes of free fall. The titanium structure would have lasted 6.5 hours more before disintegrating. Due to the high pressure, the metals of the probe would finally have vaporised once their critical temperature had been reached, completely dissolving it into Jupiter's Liquid Metallic Hydrogen interior and are probably part of the planet's solid core.

 

[Tex]

^

Wow! Very interesting read. :speakcool:

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

Indeed is. Amazing it went so well as it did even though it didn't! Would be a thrill to see that sort of a descent if the technology to survive that existed.

 

[ryan]

I once tried to go into Jupiters atmosphere with the millenium falcon landed and looked around didnt think to take screenies now i'm trying to go into Saturn then maybe Neptune but not Uranus not daring to go into there.

 

[Acepilot]

Why not Uranus?

 

[ryan]

Why not Uranus?

I'll only go there if its orbit rotates a full 90 degrees then i might go there.

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

It's a joke. It's probably the easiest of those planets to enter having the lowest mass. A funny fact about that planet (Or is it Neptune?) is that you cannot gradually enter it's atmosphere. You just slam into it. Think of it like landing a plane into the ocean which is an atmosphere itself.

 

[ryan]

I think they should send more probes to planets like Uranus or Neptune see what it's actually made out of, see why its blue and green.

 

[Acepilot]

:lol: I get it. Although I wasn't going for the joke.


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I think they should send more probes to planets like Uranus or Neptune see what it's actually made out of, see why its blue and green.

It's the methane gases that give the colors. I think it's said that Uranus is made of an ocean of Methane while Neptune is a planet full of hydrogen. Reflect the gases against the sun and they give off the blue and green light you see.

 

[ryan]

Does Neptune or Uranus or Jupiter in orbiter do they have textured rings? if they dont someone should do that.

 

[Tex]

Neptune is probably my favorite planet (other than earth of course).

I don't know why, I suppose it's because I love blue, especially the shade of blue Neptune is. Plus it's so far out there it's kind of an eerie feeling being so far away from home as you orbit this massive planet and you look back at the sun to see it's just a pin prick of light.

 

[ryan]

You might maybe couldnt identify our sun propley becuase your closer to other stars and they would all look alike.