Why havent we landed on Jupiter?

While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Jupiter, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the planet crush, melt, and vaporize spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
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Why can't we walk on Jupiter?

Jupiter is made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with some other trace gases. There is no firm surface on Jupiter, so if you tried to stand on the planet, you sink down and be crushed by the intense pressure inside the planet.
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Why can't we land on Saturn?

Surface. As a gas giant, Saturn doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Saturn, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either.
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Why haven t humans visited any other planets in the solar system?

According to NASA, there are a number of obstacles that we still need to overcome before sending a human mission to the planet, including technological innovation and a better understanding of the human body, mind and how we might adapt to life on another planet.
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How long would we survive on Jupiter?

Jupiter: Being a gaseous planet, Jupiter would make for a uniquely uncomfortable life. On — or in? — this enormous planet, "you would descend forever into the gaseous atmosphere until you're crushed by the pressure of the planet's layers."
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What Would Happen If Humans Tried To Land On Jupiter



Which planet can human live on?

So far, the only life we know of is right here on our planet Earth. It is because of the hostile conditions of other planets in the solar system. Essential elements of life- oxygen, water, air, etc. - are lacking on other planets.
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Can Earth survive without Jupiter?

Without Jupiter, the Earth would be pummeled by impacts from asteroids and comets, rendering our planet utterly uninhabitable.
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Is there a secret planet in our solar system?

In the outer Solar System, well beyond the orbit of Neptune and Pluto, a ninth planet may be waiting to be discovered. This 'ghost planet', nicknamed Planet 9 or Planet X, has never been observed directly, but peculiar goings-on in the space beyond Neptune hint tantalisingly at its existence.
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How long will humans last?

Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct in 7,800,000 years, according to J. Richard Gott's formulation of the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that we have probably already lived through half the duration of human history.
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Will humans ever leave our solar system?

"It's very unlikely," Matteo Ceriotti, an aerospace engineer and space systems engineering lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the U.K., told Live Science in an email. However, as Ceriotti explained, "unlikely" does not mean it's "impossible," and suggested a way it could theoretically be done.
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What planet can't we land on?

As an ice giant, Uranus doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling fluids. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Uranus, it wouldn't be able to fly through its atmosphere unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures would destroy a metal spacecraft.
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What planet is impossible to land on?

Surface. As a gas giant, Jupiter doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Jupiter, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either.
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Can humans live on Uranus?

Uranus' environment is not conducive to life as we know it.

The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
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What is under Jupiter's clouds?

Jupiter's clouds are thought to be about 30 miles (50 km) thick. Below this there is a 13,000 mile (21,000 km) thick layer of hydrogen and helium which changes from gas to liquid as the depth and pressure increase. Beneath the liquid hydrogen layer is a 25,000 mile (40,000 km) deep sea of liquid metallic hydrogen.
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Could you technically fly through Jupiter?

Assuming that the ones in our solar system – Jupiter and Saturn – are typical examples, it wouldn't be possible to fly through one due to the solid core, high temperature, high pressure and the difficulty in obtaining escape velocity.
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Can Jupiter support life?

Jupiter cannot support life as we know it. But some of Jupiter's moons have oceans beneath their crusts that might support life.
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How will humans be in 1000 years?

In the next 1,000 years, the amount of languages spoken on the planet are set to seriously diminish, and all that extra heat and UV radiation could see darker skin become an evolutionary advantage. And we're all set to get a whole lot taller and thinner, if we want to survive, that is.
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What species will dominate after humans?

Humans have certainly had a profound effect on their environment, but our current claim to dominance is based on criteria that we have chosen ourselves. Ants outnumber us, trees outlive us, fungi outweigh us. Bacteria win on all of these counts at once.
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When did humans almost go extinct?

New genetic findings suggest that early humans living about one million years ago were extremely close to extinction. The genetic evidence suggests that the effective population—an indicator of genetic diversity—of early human species back then, including Homo erectus, H.
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What is the most forgotten planet?

Mercury: The Forgotten Planet.
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What planet got removed?

In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted the much-loved Pluto from its position as the ninth planet from the Sun to one of five “dwarf planets.” The IAU had likely not anticipated the widespread outrage that followed the change in the solar system's lineup.
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Is there any planet with life except Earth?

Among the stunning variety of worlds in our solar system, only Earth is known to host life.
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Did Jupiter help create Earth?

Jupiter may have even played a role in the asteroid-linked extinction of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, an event that ushered in the reign of our mammalian ancestors. Without Jupiter, humans might not exist. A new study, however, suggests that without Jupiter, Earth itself might not exist either.
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Why is Jupiter so important?

In our own solar system, Jupiter, with its enormous gravitational field, plays an important protective role. By deflecting comets and asteroids that might otherwise hit Earth, Jupiter has helped to create a more stable environment for life to evolve here.
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