What would Jupiter's surface feel like?

Question

Also how does it appear? (i.e. Are there mountains/valleys?) Would we be crushed by the pressure?

Answer 1

No surface to feel =)

Jupiter is a gas giant and as such has no surface... only more and more dense layers of gas and liquid. If you were to try and land you would fall and fall until you reached the point where your ships density matches the density of the gasses around you or until the extreme pressures crush your ships superstructure into shreds of aluminum.

Answer 2

It would feel like plain old air except lots colder...

Jupiter is a gas giant...a huge bubble of gas.

It has no hard crust at all, and therefore no valleys, or mountains.

If you went there, you would sink into the gas and drift down into the

core of the planet where it is very hot from the intense gas pressure.  

Answer 3

That strongly depends on how you define the surface.

If you mean a truly solid surface - it would be both very hot (thousands of degrees) and the atmosphere would be crushing.

If you mean the point at which we no longer see into the atmosphere (which is equivalent to how we define the surface of the sun) - then it would be gassy!

Answer 4

there is no surface. the entire planet is gas, chances are, if u landed, u would fall though the gas all the way to the centre. but you would be killed due to the enormous pressure and lack of oxygen.  

Answer 5

Jupiter has no solid surface. At one point, the atmosphere will just become liquid, but that in a very slow transition. The same below the surface: At one point, the pressure becomes so high, that the liquid becomes metallic. But that again without a sharp boundary.

Answer 6

All the material I ave ever seen says there is possibly no surface on jupiter or saturn because they are gas giants and yes if you fell into one of them the pressure would crush you.

Answer 7

Actually Jupiter doesn't have a surface.

That's why it's called a gas giant

Answer 8

You'd be crushed in seconds. The first few hundreds miles are nothing but clouds of gas whipping around with hurricane force winds. beneath that you have an ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen. Not only could a human not survive here because of the pressure, we're not even capable of building something that could.

Answer 9

It may not have any solid surface at all.  SSome scientists believe that the "surface"--below the huge cloud layers, would actually be liquid Hydrogen.

Answer 10

Pressure, yes. Mountains/valleys, no. Its "surface" would feel like going through steam.

Answer 11

who would really know lolz

Answer 12

"Jupiter is one of the Gas Giants. When you see pictures of it, you're really looking at a thick layer of hydrogen and helium clouds that completely cover the planet. If we would really want to try to see Jupiter's surface, we'd have to send something through all those clouds which are a few thousand kilometers deep. Jupiter, itself, is made up of liquid hydrogen on the "surface." Below this is liquid metallic hydrogen."

"Jupiter has a mass more than double that of all of the other planets combined.  In the night sky, it glows brighter than any star.  Jupiters surface is covered with clouds of methane and ammonia, mixed with hydrogen and helium.  Jupiter has over 300 times the mass of the Earth, creating enough gravity to crush any spacecraft that appoaches its surface."

So, the answers are, the only surface we can see is the gaseous surface, and yes, we would be crushed by the pressure.

Answer 13

Fog.

It may have a rocky core deep inside, or a core of liquid metallic hydrogen, but the pressure would be so great there you would be crushed to a blob in milliseconds.