A gas giant titan with storms wider than Earth and crushing interior pressures.
Jupiter has no solid surface. As you dive into its colorful ammonia clouds, the temperature is -110°C. But as you sink deeper, atmospheric pressure climbs rapidly, turning the gas progressively hotter and denser until it turns into liquid metallic hydrogen.
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No. Jupiter is a gas giant with no solid surface. A descending probe would fall through thousands of kilometers of thickening gas until it is crushed and melted by pressures exceeding millions of atmospheres.
The Great Red Spot is an anticyclonic vortex wider than the entire planet Earth (around 16,000 km wide) with winds screaming at up to 680 km/h.
Jupiter has the shortest day in the Solar System, completing a full rotation in just 9 hours and 56 minutes, which flattens the planet noticeably at its poles.
The estimated average temperature on Jupiter is -110°C / -166°F.
A full day-night cycle on Jupiter lasts about 9.93 Earth hours.
Jupiter is 588 – 968 million km from Earth.
Jupiter's atmospheric pressure is > 2 million bar in metallic hydrogen transition layer.
90% Hydrogen, 10% Helium with ammonia crystal cirrus clouds.
Opposing jet streams racing in alternating bands at up to 540 km/h.
The Great Red Spot: an anticyclonic storm that has raged for over 350 years.
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