Why havent we landed on Saturn?

Because Neptune
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the farthest known planet in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times the mass of Earth, and slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus.
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, Jupiter and Saturn are gaseous planets, so they don't have a surface to land on
. Mercury is too close to the Sun for any probe to survive the trip.
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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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Which planet Cannot be landed 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 would happen if a human landed on Saturn?

So, if you tried to walk on this part of Saturn, you would sink through its atmosphere. Saturn's atmosphere is very thick and its pressure increases the deeper you go. After a while, you would stop sinking and unfortunately be crushed by the high pressure deeper in Saturn's atmosphere.
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Why haven t humans visited 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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What If Humans Tried To Land On Saturn



Has any person landed on Saturn?

No people have ever traveled to Saturn. It's too far away. At this stage there are no plans to send astronauts that far away from Earth.
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Why haven't 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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Can life exist on Mars?

The surface of Mars today doesn't seem like the sort of place hospitable to life. It is dry and cold, plunging down as far as -220 degrees Fahrenheit. Its thin atmosphere cannot block ultraviolet radiation from space, which would devastate any known living thing on the surface of the planet.
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Why can't we live on Uranus?

The problem is that the pressures inside Uranus are enormous at those temperatures, and would crush life. The other problem is that life on Earth requires sunlight to provide energy. There's no process inside Uranus, like volcanism on Earth, that would give life inside the planet a form of energy.
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Could we land on Jupiter?

Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere.
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Has anyone been on Uranus?

24, 1986: NASA's Voyager 2 made the first - and so far the only - visit to Uranus. The spacecraft came within 50,600 miles (81,500 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops.
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Has anyone been to Jupiter?

Mankind has been studying Jupiter for more than 400 years. But we've only been sending spacecraft there since the 1970s! Nine spacecraft have visited Jupiter since 1973, and they've discovered a lot about the planet.
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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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What is the most Earth like planet?

Kepler 452b is 1400 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 385 days, and is 1.6 times the diameter of Earth.
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How long will humans last?

Table source: Future of Humanity Institute, 2008. There have been a number of other estimates of existential risk, extinction risk, or a global collapse of civilization: Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct in 7,800,000 years, according to J.
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Has anyone landed on Neptune?

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune. No spacecraft has orbited this distant planet to study it at length and up close.
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Can we land on Venus?

Exploring the surface of Venus is difficult because of the intense heat and crushing air pressure. The longest any spacecraft has survived on the surface is a little over two hours – a record set by the Soviet Union's Venera 13 probe in 1981. NASA's DAVINCI mission is next up with a planned probe landing in 2031.
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Can you land on Saturn's rings?

"You could be really daring and have the spacecraft try to land on a single large chunk within the rings, but with all the other pieces flying around, it would be a pretty dangerous place," explains Dr. Marc Rayman, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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What is the failed planet?

Answer. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto to that of a dwarf planet because it did not meet the three criteria the IAU uses to define a full-sized planet. Essentially Pluto meets all the criteria except one—it “has not cleared its neighboring region of other objects.”
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What is the hardest planet to go to?

Surprisingly, despite being much closer to Earth than Jupiter and Saturn, Mercury is actually more difficult to reach. According to some estimates, it would take less energy to get to the dwarf planet Pluto than it takes to get to Mercury.
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Is there a missing planet?

Astronomers searching for our solar system's elusive Planet Nine — a theoretical world that may lurk deep in a cloud of icy rocks far beyond the orbit of Neptune — have come up short once again.
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How would you breathe on Saturn?

Third, Saturn is a rather windy place. At the equator, the winds can reach 1,800 kilometers per hour (1,118 mph). With these wind speeds, even if there was oxygen in Saturn's atmosphere, you still wouldn't be able to breathe because the air would be sucked from your lungs.
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Can humans terraform Saturn?

Terraforming of Saturn seems impossible, but if it should become a habitable planet for humans, we would have to put a giant artificial surface with low altitudes, filling them with water oceans to support life.
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Is there oxygen on Saturn?

Data from the Cassini-Huygens satellite showing oxygen ions in the atmosphere around Saturn's rings suggests once again that molecular oxygen alone isn't a reliable indicator of whether a planet can support life.
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Can you survive on Pluto?

At that small size, Pluto is only about half the width of the United States. It's about 3.6 billion miles away from the Sun, and it has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide. On average, Pluto's temperature is -387°F (-232°C), making it too cold to sustain life.
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