How many miles is it down to Saturn's surface after you get through all the gaseous stuff?

Question

How many miles is it down to Saturn's surface after you get through all the gaseous stuff?

Answer 1

If one were to descend through the super dense clouds of Saturn's interior one would find a liquid layer of metallic hydrogen. Even after getting past the liquid "mantel" the core is not known to be solid or liquid. It might be molten like Earth's core or it may be a huge ball of iron... I guess you could consider that a surface if you wanted to =)

Answer 2

Some people say that it has no solid surface, and if it does it must be very dense..

Answer 3

So far, no one has been able to prove that Saturn HAS a solid surface.  

So far as we know, it is a "Gas Giant" -- just a big ball of gas, with no solid center.

Answer 4

Any solid surface would be tens of thousands of miles deep in the planet.

Answer 5

I marked down the other two answers because no expert seriously believes Saturn does not have a core.  We do not know its size.  We do not know its temperature.  It IS possible that the temperature is so high that the core is molten liquid.  But that still gives us a surface.

To complicate things even further there is no difference between the gas state and liquid liquid state above the critical point (the critical point is the temperature and pressure where this happens) of a particular gas.  So it is possible that the transition from gas atmosphere to liquid "surface" is not nearly as abrupt as on Earth and possibly (if there is a solid core or mantle) the change from liquid to solid is gradual also.  But no one seriously believes there is not a high density metallic core at the center of Saturn.  We just don't know where it is or its size or temperature or almost anything else about it!