like jupiter
can anything land there?
if something big enough hit it would its disperse into clouds?
dont know if im making any sense here
can anything land there?
if something big enough hit it would its disperse into clouds?
dont know if im making any sense here
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It means that the majority of the material of the planet is in the gaseous phase of matter. I.e. it would feel like air, no matter where you were on the planet.
There may be/(actually is) a solid interior, but it is very hard to access it by any practical means.
On the gas planets, you as a human body would achieve NEUTRAL BUOYANCY in the gasses before you found anything that is solid or liquid on which to land. That is, the weight of all the gasses compresses themselves so much, that the gasses can be as dense as water, yet still be gas.
"if something big enough hit it would its disperse into clouds?"
Yes it if hit it at very fast speeds, like a meteor.
No, if it hit it at a controlled speed, like a spacecraft would.
The spacecraft would just buoy in the dispersed clouds upon "landing". It would be like a hot air balloon, floating around. Yet it could be built no sparser than an automobile and still float.
There may be/(actually is) a solid interior, but it is very hard to access it by any practical means.
On the gas planets, you as a human body would achieve NEUTRAL BUOYANCY in the gasses before you found anything that is solid or liquid on which to land. That is, the weight of all the gasses compresses themselves so much, that the gasses can be as dense as water, yet still be gas.
"if something big enough hit it would its disperse into clouds?"
Yes it if hit it at very fast speeds, like a meteor.
No, if it hit it at a controlled speed, like a spacecraft would.
The spacecraft would just buoy in the dispersed clouds upon "landing". It would be like a hot air balloon, floating around. Yet it could be built no sparser than an automobile and still float.
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Gas giants such as Jupiter *do* have solid, rocky cores.
They are considered gaseous planets because the "atmosphere" is so large and thick that nothing constructed using any kind of current technology, or even any technology that will be available in the next hundred years or so, would be able to land on the solid surface.
The pressure at the surface of a gas giant would be millions of pounds per square inch, and would crush any craft sent there *long* before it was able to make contact with the ground.
They are considered gaseous planets because the "atmosphere" is so large and thick that nothing constructed using any kind of current technology, or even any technology that will be available in the next hundred years or so, would be able to land on the solid surface.
The pressure at the surface of a gas giant would be millions of pounds per square inch, and would crush any craft sent there *long* before it was able to make contact with the ground.
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You should know that around the earth the atmosphere is very thin 100 kilometers up but still there to slow satellites and meteor. As something comes down in the atmosphere it gets thicker and thicker because there is more weight above it so at 29,000 feet - about the top of Everest, it is almost thick enough for a person to breathe if they are careful and by 5000 feet, say where Denver it, it bothers people who have just arrived and affects cooking times. Finally, at "sea level" it is as thick as we commonly have on earth.
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