What happenes if you fall into Jupiter?

Question

Assuming your body can tolerate any temperature/radiation and doesn't need to breathe. What other factors must be guaranteed to ensure temporary survival? Pressure resistance?

Main question outline:

Is there a smooth gradient from gaseous to liquid metallic hydrogen? If so, then is this illustration strongly misleading (discrete phase separation):

http://www.arcadiastreet.com/cgvistas/jupiter_020.htm

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Is there sufficient light to see?

What is the consistency like of liquid metallic hydrogen? What kind of appearance does it have? Can you swim in it (considering resistance to the fatal conditions mentioned above)?

Answer 1

You body would be crushed under the forces of gravity I would have thought.

there is also no solid surface, only gases and liquids on the surface of Jupiter

Answer 2

I would say you need the basics for survival, water, food etc. Other than that I don't know....... I have never been to Jupiter...... srry I couldn't help ^_^'

Answer 3

The gradient from gas to liquid would be fairly smooth, since a pressure a bit less than what's necessary to liquefy hydrogen makes gaseous hydrogen almost as dense (at Jupiter's temperature).

As you fell, the drag force on your body would be proportional to the square of your velocity, and also proportional to the atmospheric density.

As for swimming, you'd sink like a stone.  Your body (mostly water) is much denser than liquid hydrogen.  A liter of liquid hydrogen has only 7% the mass of a liter of water.  Liquid hydrogen also has a low viscosity compared to water.

Answer 4

there would not be enough light to see clearly and there would be no clear line where there would be lightning and stuff. the gasses would just faze into being liquid.

Answer 5

Jupiter has no physical surface so you will just plange into jupiter til you hit its core. But cause of the extreme pressure and temperature nothing could survive entering jupiters layers.

Answer 6

Jupiter is probably the most hostile place in the Solar System, other than the Sun.  Not only would the pressure crush you, but the winds on Jupiter are the second fastest in the Solar System and would rip you apart. That picture is extremely misleading, because of the storms and high winds that take place. Nearly all of Jupiter is covered in storms and winds close to 400 mph. So, overall, I doubt anyone could ever swim on Jupiter because it is just not a place you want to be.