Is it Challenging To Get To Jupiter? Why Have We Never Seen Its Interior?

Jupiter is the most visited gaseous planet of all; throughout the history of space exploration, it has been visited by nine spacecraft; however, so far, only one ship has managed to cross its dense atmosphere to observe its interior. Is it tough to land a spaceship on Jupiter? What's inside the gas giant?
Ready? Let's get started!
The problem with speed
Jupiter is the fifth closest planet to the sun, but it is not so complicated to get there despite being very far away. Because is the fact that it is the planet with the highest mass, its gravitational attraction force is vast, and thanks to that, the spaceships do not work hard once they enter their gravitational field, but this is also a problem.
Getting to Jupiter is relatively easy, but putting something into orbit around the giant planet is a more significant challenge. In 1979, the Voyager space probe took 1546 days to reach Jupiter, but to get so far, the spacecraft had to acquire a very high speed; a ship traveling so fast cannot remain in orbit around any planet since it will follow its course.
To place a spacecraft in orbit around any celestial body, it must adjust its speed; it must not go too fast to escape the gravitational pull or too slow to be trapped by gravity and plunge into free fall towards the surface of the planet.
The Voyager probe was too fast to be captured by Jupiter's gravity. To get into orbit, it would have to make use of rockets to help it slow down slowly, but at that time, the Voyager probes did not have such rockets equipped.
Future missions that reached Jupiter did count on these rockets to slow down and enter orbit around the gas giant.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:09 Requirements to reach Jupiter successfully
03:35 Our visits Pioneer 10 and 11 (1973 and 1974)
05:00 Voyager 1 and 2 (1977 and 1979)
07:05 Ulysses (1992)
08:52 Galileo (1995)
11:41 Cassini-Hyugens (2000)
12:24 New Horizons (2007)
12:55 Juno (2011)
#insanecuriosity #jupiter #solarsystem

[@JustIn-dq3mc]

Callisto is not covered in active vulcanos, in fact the opposite is the case. It has one of the oldest surfaces in the solar system. You mixed it up with Io, the first galliliean moon which is completely covered in vulcanos.

[@wolfshanze5980]

Vulcano is an island off Italy... I think you meant "Volcano".

[@maydog06]

@@wolfshanze5980 that's a typo, a minor mistake compared to getting an entire satellite wrong. We all know what he meant

[@wolfshanze5980]

@maydog06 a typo is done once... doing the same spelling multiple times isn't a typo, it's not knowing how something is spelled.

[@JustIn-dq3mc]

@@wolfshanze5980 jesus man, English is not my native language. In German it's called "Vulkan. Seems like I mixed something up

[@wolfshanze5980]

@user-ky9de3bs6p Well, you sure were fast correcting someone else, but sure don't like being pointed out when you make a mistake.

[@msthalamus2172]

I'm sorry, but I'm laughing at your animation of the stars whizzing past that probe. I wasn't aware that so many stars were situated between Earth and Jupiter. Amazing! :D That thing has gone to plaid!

[@davidsheckler4450]

I'm 😂🤣😅 bcs you believe in space & I'm not sry 👍

[@monteclark1115]

@@davidsheckler4450 ?

[@bonysminiatures3123]

@@davidsheckler4450 dummy alert

[@iximusic]

Love the Spaceballs reference!

[@Telephonebill51]

This is ALL clickbait; we don't go to Jupiter for the same reason we don't try to land on the Sun...

[@righty-o3585]

Correction, as far as we know there is no solid surface in jupiter, but we have yet to fully understand what is beyond a certain point of Jupiter's atmosphere, and there is plenty left that we haven't explored which could still hide a solid core. I'm thinking all planets have a core of some kind, solid or semi solid

[@righty-o3585]

@Syntex366 that too, exactly

[@davidsheckler4450]

You don't know anything you're just regurgitating NASA 👍

[@righty-o3585]

@@davidsheckler4450 Well, it could be worse. I could be regurgitating uneducated flat earthers from KZbin. I mean if we are going to repeat what we've heard, it should be the people who know what they're talking about

[@silent_stalker3687]

@Syntex366 great, now the Nazees can bludgeon the cjhews with gas

[@TX_BoomSlang]

So what did Shoemaker-Levy 9 make contact with?

[@nakedi630]

Love this channel

[@amangogna68]

Great video !

[@billthecat7536]

Yes, I'm all for a video on Juice.

[@michaelfried3123]

Yes, I'd like more Juice please!

[@markgarin6355]

No, its far away and there isn't much to see. There saved you having to watch this.

[@vacapsfan]

Would love to see a video about the JUICE mission!!

[@jennyanydots2389]

What about the Jew's Mission?

[@ryuunosuk3]

@@jennyanydots2389 Well, one can't talk about that subject on KZbin.

[@aeschynanthus_sp]

I would think we can't see the interior of Jupiter because it is not transparent. We can even see the interior of the Earth! But because Jupiter is a gas planet, probes can see deeper using different wavelengths.

[@MaartenAnna]

Yes, the more info about our neighbors the better. (BTW, does the voiceover dude also do NBA analysis videos? He sounds familiar)

[@CassieAngelica]

Easy, the pressure and density differentials between the different layers of the atmosphere are too high. There is currently no equipment that we have which is strong enough to endure or see through its “climate”.

[@nickjagdeo1]

You answered the whole video lol

[@CassieAngelica]

@@nickjagdeo1 It would seem so, yes.=)

[@bow_wow_wow]

Nonsense. The aliens can give us the equipment.

[@wassgang-rq2zk]

What’s crazy is gravity can make a gas solid and a liquid solid without changing its actual state. If you think about it, if it were solid gas and no actual hard rock or anything in the middle of the planet the gas would be so dense that it would compress it into a sold. It would just get thicker and thicker until you couldn’t penetrate to the bottom

[@CassieAngelica]

@@wassgang-rq2zk And yet it is still the weakest of the four fundamental forces.

[@Eagle45678910]

I like how he said the title of the video immediately

[@stellarstargazer3982]

What If Proxima Centauri was 1 light year away from Earth and Barnard's Star 2 light years away from us

[@Soysaucy328]

It’s getting closer so it’s not what if, it’s when

[@ayushyadav6348]

@@Soysaucy328 might me 1 billion years

[@atlassadsad7422]

Nothing would change. 1 light year is still far beyond a human lifetime to travel. We will never explore outside of our solar system.

[@jennyanydots2389]

A lot of sexual violence against the homeless is what would happen son. A lot of it boy. Soooo much.

[@Ozie1981]

Travel to another star system is not outside the limits of what the human body can endure. If you were to accelerate with the same force as earth’s gravity (9.81 meters per second squared) and you could ignore relativity you would reach light speed in jump under 10 months. We can’t ignore relativity though so let’s suppose we accelerate to 90% of lightspeed. At 90%, relativity has only roughly doubled the amount of energy you need. This would put a round trip to alpha-centauri at roughly 10 years (plus however long you stay there before heading home). The reason we can’t do this now is that to achieve a constant acceleration of 9.81 meters per second per second on a spacecraft large enough to keep humans alive for 10+ years we would need slightly more energy than the United States produces from all of its power plants combined. (I’m using the mass of the Enterprise for that estimate by the way). It’ll happen eventually as we are slowly but surely climbing the kardashev scale. 😊. My point is that it can be done without subjecting the human body to any unsurvivable conditions.

[@bryanr.4947]

Io is covered with active volcanoes, not Callisto.

[@mm-dw4rr]

Bless you guys. Loving your channel ❤

[@jennyanydots2389]

What about all the gRape allegations though boy? Where do you stand on that son?

[@agentpaper8130]

@@jennyanydots2389 Wait, what? Bless you isn't always said by religious people. I know a few atheists that say that. If they're religious how do you know which one they subscribe to? Did KZbin take a comment out or do you have worms in your head?

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@agentpaper8130 Maybe you should just mind your own business child?

[@mikeburkhart8336]

One problem is making sure the ship's computer doesn't got crazy and dumps you into space on the way there. (2001 A Space Odyssey movie reference)

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Let me get this correctly , this video from few l weeks ago us talking about the Galileo spacecraft in present tense.

[@josephoyek6574]

Forbidden jawbreaker...

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

isnt this the same video as the saturn one?

[@prdgmshft9107]

Fun fact: The closer you get too Jupiter moar stoopiter ,

[@justanotherlikeyou]

I'm not sure we should go near Europa. We were warned to stay away

[@PhaRoaH87]

Who warned us?

[@OtomoTenzi]

@@PhaRoaH87 Michael Altman

[@PhaRoaH87]

@@OtomoTenzi Oh, I thought it might of been Chuck Norris

[@oFLYINGYETIo]

As Lump Maroon once said: JUPITER.

[@mrmakeshft]

Doesn’t Jupiter Rain Diamonds? That’s like understanding chemistry backwards. Diamonds are made from carbon and pressure. What’s the reactive chemicals in the process however?

[@wyldshot666]

Why not send actual cameras into these planetary oceans record what you can?

[@owenpigeontop5683]

12:37 looks like bill cider rotated.

[@ieatcrayons408]

9:54 so 153 celcius is not 22 times the earth's temperature... Earth's avg temp is 13.9. which makes 135 degree just 11 times the earth's avg temp

[@poppyseedjr8631]

Can someone explain why exactly they intentionally crash the probes when they’re done with them

[@lucasmarianosanchezdauria4264]

To avoid potential contamination from earth bacteria, or any other bio signature from our home planet.

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

@@lucasmarianosanchezdauria4264 But wouldn't an Earth life form that is hearty enough to survive the voyage possibly still contaminate the atmosphere of Saturn/Jupiter?

[@richardjackson7624]

yes make a new video.

[@TX_BoomSlang]

Us this narrated by Dan Patrick?

[@kobyalexander7693]

Just get Blast to teleport you there DUH

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Hm

[@athisio836]

No solid surface ? Then how does it have gravitational pull? Also I am pretty sure there is photo/video of asteroids hitting and creating a bright blip.

[@Agrippa97]

Something doesn't have to be solid to have gravity. Ever heard of the sun?

[@theangledsaxon6765]

Gravity is related to mass itself, and doesn’t care what phase that mass is in

[@darryldeclue841]

I'm curious, what if Jupiter and Saturn were solid planets, and not gas Giants?

[@PokerIsLife13]

I feel like that’s too massive for it to be a planet anymore

[@PokerIsLife13]

Might even be enough to ignite fusion? Idk

[@RestrictedHades]

If they kept the same mass their diameter would shrink and they would basically become super earths

[@JjackVideo]

If Jupiter were a solid planet instead of a gas planet, several things in our solar system would change: Jupiter's atmosphere: If Jupiter were solid, it would not have its thick atmosphere, which is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. Instead, it would have a much thinner atmosphere composed of gases released from the planet's solid surface. Magnetic field: Jupiter's magnetic field is one of the strongest in the solar system, and it is generated by the motion of electrically conducting material in its liquid metallic hydrogen core. If Jupiter were solid, it would not have this dynamo effect, and thus, its magnetic field would be much weaker or nonexistent. Moons: Jupiter has at least 79 moons, many of which are believed to have formed from the gas and dust that surrounded the planet during its early formation. If Jupiter were solid, it is possible that some of these moons would not have formed or would be in different orbits. Impact on the solar system: Jupiter's large mass and strong gravity have a significant impact on the solar system. If Jupiter were solid, it would still have a large mass, but it would not have the same gravitational effects on other bodies in the solar system. This could have significant consequences for the formation and evolution of the solar system.

[@chriscushing9575]

@@JjackVideo call down???

[@isaackitone]

Dense atmosphere, winds, pressure, heat, etc....

[@highflow256]

We saw inside Jupiter after Saitama sneezed on it

[@louistech112]

It’s the pressure

[@OtomoTenzi]

And the HEAT + RADIATION... We don't have any materials on Earth that could possibly withstand that kinda motherfucker! 🥵

[@emilaviles6703]

Voyager telescope seeing dush image wind bacteria on Jupiter,,, it's. NOT bacteria it's human being civilization top3

[@justinmathis7707]

This is common sense. The gravity is much to strong and there is no land on Jupiter it’s a gas giant.

[@OtomoTenzi]

NOBODY could land on Jupiter... Not in a MILLION years. You've gotta CRAZY to even think it's possible!

[@stephenolan5539]

Read Not Final! By Issac Asimov. A great short story. And the plot hinges on that.

[@joshwright9136]

Jupiter is the 5th closest. Not the 5th furthest

[@VaxtorT]

Why do we never see the actual photos.....only graphic drawings and paintings.

[@mr.karate7996]

CGIs. That makes astronomy one of the most fishy field.

[@VaxtorT]

@@mr.karate7996 I have found that Scientsts...or Science....pretends or perhaps assumes they know more than they do. For example the age of the Earth and Fossils. Presently there are truly No Definitively, Accurate Dating Methods for Rocks, Strata, or Fossils. The Radiometric Dating Methods presently used begin with some very big Assumptions. Wrong Assumptions equal Wrong Conclusions. Honestly, after being down this rabbit hole for 40+ years, I am leaning more to The Young Earth Creationists beliefs. Contrary to popular belief and the Accusations from mainstream scientists...Young Earth Creationists really do use Real Science to back up their claims.

[@KidArkx]

Correction Europa doesn't have cracks from geological activity. The cracks in the crust are from tidal forces due to its Elliptical orbit causing it to have uneven forces applied across it by Jupiter , alongside its proximity to Ganymede essentially having a tug of war with the planet.

[@plozar]

Going to Jupiter costs a lot of money. Where does it come from?

[@michaelashley2855]

You’ll find out April 15

[@richardbloemenkamp8532]

I guess a lot of it is tax-payer money, but if there were no tax money, I think there would still be signifact public and company donations to make it happen. All developed countries have a space exploration budget so I think there is quite a lot of public support and it is one of the examples where international collaboration works quite well even though China is a bit separate.

[@viper2446]

why dont they just send a manned space probe into Jupiter

[@OnCloud7188]

What if we’ve been seeding Jupiter and are now responsible for alien life on that planet? 😂

[@unarealtaragionevole]

Video topic idea...for the purpose of this thought experiment, let us create some rules. (A) Since this is reality based thought experiment, we are not allowing FTL technologies or magical navigational shields, sensors and deflectors. (B) The speed of light (1c) is the maximum speed limit and we can travel the speed of light or 1c. (C) While these are real world problems, we are going to ignore things like radiation, heat build up, and temporal distortions. For the sake of the topic, we have the ability to safely travel at the speed of light and can go no faster. Great...but...how would we realistically do this and not run into something that destroys the ship? All I can come up with is we could need to use light like sonar, so a fancy version of LIDAR. But this creates limitations also. An internal ship based LIDAR system would limit our range of detection in real time. A ship needs time to send out a signal, receive a detection, process the information, and then react to that information. So what is a realistic LIDAR range that would allow us to safely travel at light speed? Plus, if the ship is moving then the time and distances are going to be greatly reduced. And I'm not certain we could even use a system like this while at light speed cause it's not going to travel faster than us to warn us of a danger in front of us. But for the sake of the debate, let us say that in order to give a ship at least a 5 minute warning to detect and prepare...we would need a LIDAR system with a minimum range of least 7 light minutes. 1 to send out a signal, 1 to receive the signal, 5 to process and react. And that's a bare minimum. I think it needs to be much more. This creates only three options for realistic light speed travel, and none are going to inspire films or books... Option 1) A ship at rest scans a distance in front of them, then travels at light speed to that point and stops. Then scans again and travels to the next point. While not ideal....this leap frog method is the safest I can think of. Option 2) We throw saftey to the wind and travel at light speed with no way of knowing if there is something in front of us or not. Obviously the most dangerous option. Option 3) We send a probe in front of us at light speed to tell us what's ahead, then follow behind it accounting for the information as we get it. But this requires for us to 1) correctly account for he incoming information and 2) the probe not malfunction, or collide with something and safely send information to us. Not mention we need to be able to control the probe to stop it at a distance, or return to us, or have a recovery method........a lot of headaches. Risky but an option that allows for longer travel times at light speed for greater distances reached. What do you all think?

[@michaelashley2855]

Whoa - dude

[@David_Poole]

My thoughts on all this are I'm not sure it matters. Space is a very big place. Interstellar travel to other stars is going to be clear of any larger objects. Particles are a different story, but not avoidable since they are everywhere. A 5 minute notice to know what's ahead also doesn't sound like enough time to maneuver when you're travelling at light speed.

[@unarealtaragionevole]

@@David_Poole Oh I agree, we need more time. But I was trying to give the smallest possible amount time based off our current technologies using both sonar and lidar. The closest analogs we have today, which are using fancy versions of lidar similar to I think we would use in real space travel....are fighter jets. And while the times and technology differ, they tend to be about a minute out, a minute in, and then depending on the computers and pilots...there's a reactionary time between 3-5 minutes for decision making. Now this is only about 1000 kph so we would need more time and space for the decisions at higher velocities. However, at the same time...we also have to consider that space is big and empty. While from the outside looking in the universe is jammed full of galaxies, gases, stars, planets, moons, rocks, dust, junk.........on our scale, it's really open and empty. Even at light speed, the distances between sizable threats is bigger than we think. It's true that small threats become big threat at light speed, and that's one of the many reasons I like to say that even if we could travel at light speed, we shouldn't because it's just too dangerous for practical travel....but having said that I think that 7 minutes with the level of technology we have today would be enough for large scale threats. There was a 4th option that I thought about. It's a combination of options 1 and 3. Instead of sending a probe first...we could send out like billions or trillions of light pulses. Then wait awhile, and then follow them like we would the probe. This would force us into the segmented travel just like in option 1, but we would have the ability to travel for longer distances like in option 3 while continuously following these wave of light. The reason I am not certain this is a good idea is that in theory stealth would be thrown out the door. We could be easily detected, tracked, and possibly routed with this method of travel.

[@jevinday]

Not sure how you would "land" on a planet made of gas but ok...

[@killerplank1]

Give me the JUICE

[@FOnewmike]

Clickbait channel

[@tejasvigamer2358]

Please make video on nebula,its all types and information about it🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[@michaelashley2855]

Sorry - too many emojis and too many “pleases” - no nebula videos for you

[@AdrianCHOY]

You have never seen Earth’s interior and wonder why u haven’t seen Jupiter’s?

[@righty-o3585]

That's odd that the spot rotates counter clockwise. The coriolis should have it spinning the other way like on earth

[@senorsuave]

Juice us!

[@grndragon2443]

I'm sure Jupiter is more than what we think it is. Look how long it took the scars from shoemaker to vanish.

[@Embassy_of_Jupiter]

Thank you for your interest in exploring the planet Jupiter. While we appreciate your enthusiasm, we regret to inform you that we must decline your request to visit our planet. Even if it were possible for you to visit Jupiter, we must inform you that the our planet is not currently accepting visitors from Earth or any other planet. We take the border security of our planet very seriously, and we do not appreciate nosey visitors sticking their noses into our business. We request that you respect our position and refrain from any further attempts to explore Jupiter or any other planet under our jurisdiction. We reserve the right to take any necessary legal measures to enforce our position. We appreciate your interest and commitment to advancing knowledge and science. However, we must firmly request that you comply with our regulations and avoid any further action that may compromise our planet's privacy and security. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, The Embassy of Jupiter

[@stephenolan5539]

Have you read Not Final! By Issac Asimov?

[@appyritionz1930]

Why do videos like this always start off with ridiculously stupid questions like "would it be difficult to land a spacecraft on jupiter" to only state the obvious a minute later saying there's no surface. It's a gas giant. Pretty sure a middle schooler could've told you that.

[@jackofalltrades123]

If jupiter was mostly a liquid then wouldn't that make it heavier as a planet and would have a way stronger gravitational pull then just a measly 2x that of earth?

[@Werdnasemajjamesandrew]

Does anybody else want us to land on the moons to contaminate possible life

[@bow_wow_wow]

Enough excuses. I want to see the inside of Jupiter THIS DECADE.

[@redneckReno]

with all this new technology we sent to Jupiter ....why is there so much CGI in this video...what a joke

[@bangrojai4868]

To penetrate the biggest fart that full of lighting isnot an easy task dude.

[@primalzodiachunter]

They need to create rocks with the technology of magic #shinyones

[@davidsheckler4450]

It's impossible bcs space is Santa Claus for adults 👍

[@matthewbyrd398]

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.

[@eatMY455]

Never will because its all cgi

[@eatMY455]

@@QwertyS3 just because you can see something. Doesnt mean you can reach or touch it

[@Jawst]

Your animations and facts are full of Errors... you need to put in more effort.

[@ronbusby3335]

Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.” -Amen.

[@markg.7865]

At that time humans thought the Earth was flat and the Sun moves around the Earth.

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Corinthians 12: 3 "Ye, sniff all the choir boy bottoms thy can for it pleases God."

[@eljay3390]

That makes sense, that Jupiter is mostly liquid.. A "gas giant" never made sense to me, I knew there had to be something past the atmosphere.. Again, scientists should just say I DON'T KNOW, instead of trying to change their teachings all the time.. Let a person read a few books, then he can tell the masses a blue sky is red, and they will believe him, lol.. Edit.. And, if the planet is mostly liquids? Then there's land somewhere down there also

[@louistech112]

Think of it like this : At certain pressure gas can turn into liquids like liquid nitrogen for example. If we pour it it turn to nitrogen gas. Kinda the same thing even if we built something to go inside it we’d just keep falling till it burns in the core.

[@OtomoTenzi]

@@louistech112 Basically, we are FUCKED if we ever attempt to go there... Even if we do manage to somehow make it there, we most prolly won't be able to make it back to Earth alive! 💀