Can we land on giant gas planets?

Question

Can we land on giant gas planets like Saturn and Jupiter? Did they even have solid surfaces or they only composed of gases?

Answer 1

only composed of gases.. so even if you go there.. all you'd feel is gas and air.. but you will probably die before even reaching there lol.. but the core is solid

Answer 2

if it is a gas planet we cannot land as it would be in a liquid state depending on the makeup of the planet it might have a core that is frozen but the temp would be so cold that metals would be like glass and having enough fuel to heat the metal would not be possible

in my opinion

Answer 3

The gas giants have no solid surface. There is a point where the gas is so compressed it would appear solid. But to get to it, the psi would be beyond anything that we could design to with stand.

Answer 4

you're on one already.

Answer 5

We can't land on gas planets ... cos they're GAS. In addition, the gravity of saturn and jupiter is believed to be so strong that any object would be sucked in and squished to nothing before even attempting to "land" on the gas surrounding the inner core.

Answer 6

No your own weight would crush U.

Answer 7

No, they are not composed only of gas, but also liquid and metallic forms of these gases around a possible silica core (No evidence for these cores have been found yet, it is only a theory which predicts them)

The pressure needed for making hot hydrogen gas liquid is very high.

The closest we have ever gotten with a unmanned probe was 140 km below the reference cloud layer. The signal ended at 24 bar pressure. The reason was, that the temperatures and turbulences inside the atmosphere had been even higher as expected. It is expected from the data, that the parachute melted first, 30 minutes after the probe got destroyed by the pressure, and the aluminum parts of the probe becoming liquid because of pressure and temperature 40 minutes afterwards.

Finally, the high temperatures and pressures made the titanium parts liquid after 6.5 hours - and still no solid surface was even reached - all happened in the gaseous or liquid layers of Jupiter.

Answer 8

I don't want to say it is totally impossible, we could maybe in a hundred or maybe in five hundred years do that, but it would rather be like diving in a huge ocean, the gas deeper in a gas giant liquefies and later is even so compressed, that it is solid, even metalized. But how would we cope with the pressure and the heat inside of Jupiter, the temperature close to the core is about 50000 Kelvin and the pressure must be about 20000 times our atmosphere.

Answer 9

When you look at the sky at night with a telescope you see these planets , and they look round like our earth and moon, so that it gives us the inference that they are solid objects, and only could be the atmosphere is gassy but not the surface

Answer 10

it depend on what kind of gas if it is a sulfur   we can't

Answer 11

they are GAS giants. they are nothing but gas. any probe we sent there would be torn apart for a couple of reasons.

1. pressure

2. extream winds

3. gravity (in particuar jupiter and saturn.)

there are solid surfaces in the gas giants.... in the core. but to get to the core, you have to get through the rest which is right next to impossible. the best thing we could do is observe the planet through a probe... we won't actually land there. imaging can show us the chemical makeup of the planet so we don't really need to land a probe in there.

and currently, all of the hubub is about the moons of the planets (especially europa and enceledeus). the main reason we land probes to begin with is to search for life, and we know there is no way there is any life on the gas giants, but life could very well be on the moons of these massive planets.

europa for example, jupiter's 4th largest moon, might have life on it... we know it has water, and maybe some oxygen. the moons are more of the main focus now.

mars and earth are the only two planets that could possibly sustain any life, and mars doesn't have any right now. so now we are moving onto the moons. life isn't limited to planets... it can survive on moons, even asteroids.

so there is really no point in landing on these jovian planets, and besides, we couldn't even if we wanted to!

Answer 12

they Do not have solid matter in it u cannot land in it because it has no oxygen and the temperatures there is wild it will be super hot and cold rapidly and it is just gas if even we can invent some thing that can resist super hot and super cold it might take months to just reach the other side

so your answer is no!!