Voyage To The Planets | Travel advice for Jupiter | Thursdays @ 8:30pm, ABC1

Voyage To The Planets - Jupiter. No tour of the Solar System is complete without a visit to its largest planet, but be warned: along with the grandest sights and the deepest mysteries, youll face also its biggest dangers. For a truly out of this world planetary experience, head beyond the Asteroid Belt to the giant planet Jupiter, a world so roomy that it could swallow every planet and moon in the Solar System and still have room for more.
To gaze back at the receding blue gem that is our home planet and go where no human has gone before? What strange sights await you?
What dangers must you avoid? With five decades of space exploration behind us, we can now begin to answer these questions.
Blast-off with Voyage to the Planets: a 6 x 50 minute Australian made documentary series exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of travel to the alien planets of our own Solar System.
Narrated by Richard Roxburgh, this series visits the planets from a very personal perspective: the individual experience of the people who have sent probes hurtling to strange worlds, and the viewpoint of any one of us who might dream of making a trip ourselves.

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Science & Technology

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• Science & Technology
• voyage of the planets
• jupiter
• mars
• saturn
• venus
• pluto
• neptune
• uranus
• mercury
• richard roxburgh
• richard smith
• Chris Thornburn

[masterdelrap]

@chrismart2008 LAVA AND ESPLOSIONS

[nzer48]

@chrismart2008 Apparrently a small dense rocky core. The finding out could prove very tricky due to the enormous pressures at that depth.... but it is believed that the core is not exactly what you might image a “rocky core” to be. The internal temperatures of these gas giants is intense, ranging from 7,000 Kelvin to 20,000, so any core is likely to be liquid. The rocky core is actually referring to a liquid core of heavier elements such as iron and nickel. :)

[chrismart2008]

I wonder what all gas giants grounds look like?.

[HJHProductionsdotcom]

i'd like to check out europa

[s0lfetheri]

@iPooful I guess you would float somewhere below the surface if the clouds you are in are more dense than your body. So you'd go partway through the planet, but will never reach the core. IMHO though.

[cakecrumb095]

If this wasnt dangerous and it was possilbe I would SO go!

[iPooful]

if you were to stand on jupiter, would you go right through because its gas or would you be crushed by its mass?

[aacheronn]

@hullohulloRFC jupiter is almost just gas % wise. but it does have heavy core of metals like earth.

a few probes have been sent past it and i know of at least one crashed in to see what its makeup was. thats why we have so many good pics of Jupiter.

further est thing sent out was satellite voyager one i think and its out of our solar system by now traveling roughly towards darwin (closest star).

[kingtipz]

@peterm3964 danger, illiterate alert!!

[bahamut6667]

@hullohulloRFC ok first yes Jupiter has a ground the planet with out all the gasses and stuff will be only 2 times the size of earth or something and only satellite have been sent to orbit Jupiter nothing has landed as of yet and the furthermost thing we have sent into space is a satellite and it is at 19 million miles from earth and counting