[womberte]

Does Jupiter have solid ground? I heard that when a planet becomes to big it's unable to hold mass or something and turns into a gas planet. And I also remember watching a small documentary of Nasa sending a satelite into Jupiter and it never hit gorund it just burnt up.

Gas planets are, as their suggests, composed on increasingly dense layers of gases, such as hydrogen, ammonia, methane, etc. It's hypothesised that Jupiter has a core of something liquid metallic hydrogen or perhaps solid carbon (nobody's certain what, I don't think) but the density of the gas layers is so great that nothing man-made would ever get anywhere near the core.

Also why does Jupiter look the way it does? Why does it have different colours in sets of lines? I know the planet is very stormy but what makes the colours set in those particular places and not bunched together? What you're looking at are different streams of gases with "clouds" of crystalline forms of other chemicals, such ammonia. The lines/bands form just in the same way that the Earth has bands of moving air (jetstream) with clouds of water forming bands that rotate in various directions - with Jupiter it's a little more extreme as the period of rotation is very quick (9 hours or so) and the differences in warming between the upper and lower regions of the "atmosphere" are rather large.

[Orefsmisits]

Gas planets are, as their suggests, composed on increasingly dense layers of gases, such as hydrogen, ammonia, methane, etc. It's hypothesised that Jupiter has a core of something liquid metallic hydrogen or perhaps solid carbon (nobody's certain what, I don't think) but the density of the gas layers is so great that nothing man-made would ever get anywhere near the core.


What you're looking at are different streams of gases with "clouds" of crystalline forms of other chemicals, such ammonia. The lines/bands form just in the same way that the Earth has bands of moving air (jetstream) with clouds of water forming bands that rotate in various directions - with Jupiter it's a little more extreme as the period of rotation is very quick (9 hours or so) and the differences in warming between the upper and lower regions of the "atmosphere" are rather large.

Also, you forgot to mention that the Red Storm on Jupiter is where girls go to get more stupider.