What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?
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Just a random question. LOL
A spaceship attempting to “land” on Jupiter’s “surface” would have to overcome some significant obstacles. Once you enter the cloud of gas that roughly marks the beginning of a giant like Jupiter, temperature and pressure steadily increase as your head toward the planet’s core, and gaseous hydrogen and helium morph into liquid form. While our solar system’s gas giants are far from the sun, the core of a gas giant is likely to be incredibly hot–Jupiter’s is estimated at around 43,000 degrees Fahrenheit. You’d also have to pass through the thick clouds of ammonia found in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere.
If you make your ship from tough stuff–tougher than any known substance on Earth–that could survive these conditions, it might make it to a gas giant’s core. What it would find there in the alien murk is still unclear.
https://www.popsci.com/science/can-we-land-on-jupiter-saturn/
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Snorkeling?
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