ScienceCasts: What Lies Inside Jupiter

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For four long centuries the gas giant's vast interior has remained hidden from view. NASA's Juno probe, scheduled to launch on August 5th, could change all that.

[@razuhiko27]

i always wonder what is inside of jupiter. does it have a land like earth? does it have sea? damn it. i'm probably dead before the era of space travel

[@countbleck753]

Oh for fuck's sake. Whenever I ask about how does Jupiter look like above the cloud level, I am greeted by stuff like "Oh, it doesn't have a solid surface!". I don't give a shit about it's magnetic field. I want to see photos that show it's clouds, or how the sky there looks like. So stop feeding me this bullshit, get Juno there, and GET SOME SHOTS, PARKER!

[@ComMander0525k]

That's what i think too, enough bullshit and start posting close up photos.

[@smartpizza3]

How would even get there? The pressure is so immense that contrary to popular belief Jupiter is actually a liquid planet and not a gas planet.

[@TaiFerret]

Xxwarhawk23xX I thought it was a super critical fluid, which is like a hybrid form of liquid and gas.

[@TheThingFromTheArena]

Completely agree with you. I say we stop funding NASA until they figure out how to attach GoPros to their probes and rovers! It's not that fucking hard, NASA. We spend millions on these things you'd think they'd be kind enough to at least get some quality HD video. Fuck you, NASA.

[@ComMander0525k]

***** just mount a camera inside nokia 3310 and throw it inside jupiter.

[@holgasolis6635]

Well the thing that I want to know is how jupiter's storm looks like when your on it.

[@kaileric]

I wish I could parachute into Jupiter and see what's it like for myself.

[@DayRPre]

***** Let him go anyway

[@TempuraRoll-of4hj]

+kaileric We should get together one day and build special suits that can withstand such gases, pressure, and gravity. And yes, I will parachute down to Jupiter with you.

[@kaileric]

I know, I would do it if I had a terminal disease.

[@Thejaffanator]

How the fuck did an argument about religion start on a video about Jupiter...?

[@evilparadisev1535]

Allah Akbar

[@justinlingle4174]

This is the KZbin comment section. How could it not?! Lmao!

[@wendellzhou9753]

But what if, Jupiter has a solid surface that we don't know of? *grabs popcorn for this stupidest question ever*

[@KBMadhouse]

Aliens camouflage on Jupiter.

[@reidhb1]

What Lies, outside of Jupiter? Everybody.

[@efbriandongsao1551]

Space xD.

[@seaman83]

A very tiny layer of bullshit 😜

[@jmwFILMS]

Whats the point? You enter jupiter, you are crushed to death by ultimate gravity pressure. D:

[@nasastronaut]

i wish i was juno so i can go visit that beautiful planet

[@cpk9999]

what nasa should so is get a probe like that , specialize it for research on black holes. locate the nearest one and send it off. not that researching planets isn't good but that would give us so much more intricate insight into the physics of this universe.

[@lonelypizza9394]

The guy narrating kinda sounds like Jimmy form South Park.

[@shadowg3]

a liquid core.....it would be very awesome to see....

[@WildBillCox13]

It stands to reason that the closer you get to the center of any liquid object the size of Jupiter the denser it becomes. Eventually, you reach a zone where you cannot "swim" any "deeper" and this can be qualified as the interface between "liquid" and "solid" phases of matter, just as the surface of Earth's oceans marks the interface between the "gaseous" and "liquid" phases of matter. You might object that "Water is not compressible", but you're talking about terrestrial mechanics, not Jovian ones, and, moreover, Jupiter's composition does not seem at this time to be dominated by water. The enormity of the pressures involved very deep in the Jovian stew are such that theoretical models suggest that even nebulous Hydrogen (whose atoms are so small they leak right out between the metal molecules of a steel tank--creating a significant fire hazard in its proximity) is supercompressed to an exotic state; perhaps even a new phase of matter. Liquid Metallic Hydrogen . . . sounds like something Superman would make by squeezing ice cubes in his hands. I'm surprised they didn't categorize it as "plastic"

[@Peluceus]

Congrats, you have achieved a higher sense of well being and thinking then the rest of the internet population. Please proceed to the VIP lounge.

[@DangerDuckAvengerDaffy]

I learn so much about space by watching these videos instead of going to a class to learn!

[@Kissfan96dr]

the next probe into Jupiter should have a powerful search light and a visual camera. I want to see not just theorize what's under the clouds.

[@throwaway2011]

I don't do expensive space travel, i take a wormhole to Saturn everyday in which my camouflaged base is under Saturn's surface, Saturn is composed of similar gasses, and we tested a cubic meter of Saturnian atmosphere, highly flammable.

[@earththemined681]

DON'T MAKE EARTH ANGRY. YOU DO NOT LIKE EARTH WHEN SHE IS ANGRY.

[@TheAnubisDrake]

You have to record with an HD camera to get HD video. We haven't sent one yet, so yes it is to hard.

[@bomberguy06]

they did drop a probe into the atmosphere. but it only recorded a few minutes of footage

[@zinzolin14]

Anyone else here like how the satallite used for studying Jupiter is named "Juno"?

[@burtdee6534]

So how long would it take for Juno to reach Jupiter? If they're going to possibly launch it in August, when will it arrive?

[@Luisofbrazil]

only four months to go...

[@evilemperordude]

It might have a solid core, which I imagine the crushed probe would become part of.

[@HORRORTV1]

Fusion only occurs at a certain temperature.

[@asyncasync]

So by that logic we should also refrain from saying that "vampires don't exist", "santa claus doesn't exist", "the easter bunny doesn't exist"? After all you cannot "disprove" then either, now can you?

[@dtiydr]

It will be torn of you fingers in no time due to the intense winds there and then you will be flying around like a piece of paper in a tornado and next second die an agonizing death due to the intense radiation. But if you would be able to hold on the match and light it, it would immediately distinguish after the phosphor burned up.

[@FelipiComI]

@oomblikkies, the Juno spacecaft will make a fast fly by Jupiter (just some hours) and will get outta from there. So the exposure time is low, but is still powerful!

[@Snowwie88]

Does Juno also going to provide us with HD photo's and video's of Jupiter?

[@zantiagotron07]

I've been inside jupiter in a super realistic dream.. it's... it's beautiful.

[@tyejss]

your right it has liquid methane water but i wonder what is in saturn.

[@rickysims212]

You missed my point. I was referring to you comment, that you haven't learned much in school. If you want to really learn, you must go outside of the school enviroment, unless of course you are at a university. I was referring to lower level schooling.

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light and time! This is based on just one equation (E= ˠ M˳C²) ∞ the Lorentz contraction of space and time is between the energy and mass. The greater the energy the greater the contraction of space and the slower time will run. Mass will increase relative to this and each ref-frame can be seen as a vortex in space formed by the rate that time flows. The brackets represent the boundary condition of the ref-frame within infinity

[@exmarine66]

@yellowcorba1 "The solid inner core was discovered in 1936 by Inge Lehmann and is generally believed to be composed primarily of iron and some nickel." --wikipedia

[@JasonH42000]

jupiter and saturn are both strange planets curious to see the finding for jupiter in the future

[@yellowcorba1]

we can only assume though the most we have dug into the earths crust is 10 miles down thats it. we don't know if there is some material with the same consistency of iron or nickel.

[@2orange98]

not trying to troll or anything but the one real problem with that idea is well we dont 100% know where a black holes are... they are after all just a black spot in space(blends in)

[@4QBUD]

It is Brown Sugar and Honey, my Son. Jupiter, like the Moon is made of cheese, but Jupiter also contains Hot Fudge, Milk, Brown Sugar and lots of Honey. Oh, and a nice big red strawberry that goes round and round because some Giant stirred the drink way too hard!

[@LanceWinslow]

Amazing totally. How do you know that this space craft won't get hit with some major lightning type activity rendering it DOA, thus cutting the important data feed back to Earth short?

[@seanzhu323]

Inside jupiter's storm is a Krabby Patty

[@therationalcollection2999]

hydrogen is flammable because when its exposed to oxygen and an ignition source it turns to H2O which gives off energy in the process (heat) so if the is no oxygen the chemicle process cant exist

[@GusdabereanHXO]

Yknow digitech u got a point there! In fact in the movie 2001 a space odyssey they fire a nuclear bomb in jupiters core and ignite it into another sun! Maybe just maybe when our sun extinguishes itself and becomes a small white dwarf encapable of giving enough heat to sustain life we can ignote Jupiter and extend life in our solar system. Maybe mars would be the habitable zone from a jupiter sun? maybe one of saturns moons?

[@Owenception]

Well hello there science side of youtube. I missed you.

[@Mr556x45mm]

+ElliottAero You couldn't. Fire needs oxygen, and Jupiter's atmosphere is devoid of any oxygen. There may be water on Jupiter, but water just douses the flame. At any rate, lighting Jupiter on fire is impossible. It would burn off Hydrogen on Jupiter's surface if, say, you drop an Oxygen can or two into jupiter

[@Mr556x45mm]

The only way I could see Jupiter being set on fire would be by Hydrogen-1 Fusion. Jupiter is far too low in mass for that to happen though.

[@matguimond92]

People use to believe the earth was flat and that it was the center of the universe and that the sun and everything in the universe orbited around earth. hmmm.

[@throwaway2011]

To everyone saying that, oxygen is less flammable then hydrogen, if there was oxygen on jupiter it would pretty much be full of either water vapor, liquid water, or much more likely, ice

[@Poodleinacan]

I am eager for this expedition!

[@bluebearvuurwerk]

we can get in space but an HD video is too hard XD

[@Taipans]

I love Robot narrators.

[@dbell95008]

@Aaron James: It takes 8 tonnes of Oxygen to "burn" 1 tonne of Hydrogen. Jupiter is 89% Hydrogen, out of 1.8 x 10^24 tonnes of mass. It would take 13 trillion trillion tonnes of Oxygen to combine with that much Hydrogen! Not "a wee bit". The oxygen gets used up; where do you think the water vapor in Jupiter's atmosphere came from?!?

[@canuck1980]

imagine there's another world under the jupiter's atmosphere :o

[@asyncasync]

Jupiter is not big enough to sustain nuclear fusion. Plus you do realize how much the distances vary between Mars, Jupiter and Earth?

[@throwaway2011]

he would get squashed by gravity and/or suffocate because there is not much oxygen in that atmosphere.

[@KOSMICxKLASHER2]

Did you watch the video at all, everything you want to know is said in the video, it is made of hydrogen. Deep inside is a liquid core made of hydrogen in its liquid state and almost 1% mercury.

[@greenseaships]

Boy, the Almighty sure gave us some cool stuff to study.

[@greenseaships]

SgtBaker16 I didn't even say "God". I said almighty. That is to say the force which created the Universe (or do you think it was never created?). I'm not even addressing your God vs. atheism argument. Go troll somewhere else.

[@greenseaships]

***** Both of you are putting words in my mouth to try and create an argument. Jeez youtube is an angry place. I was giving SgtBaker the benefit of the doubt, but you're right- I should be more cynical about people in KZbin comments. It's a form of trolling to go around picking fights with people in comments sections. You can reply all you want, but I won't be opening anymore email notifications regarding this video. I'll take my 5 thumbs up and call it a day on this one. Go argue with each other.

[@JohnthePhantom]

Wow. When they say adults act like children. They weren't kidding.

[@christofferpettersson]

If Shoemaker levy 9 wasn't enough then I doubt a match would be either :)

[@themixedarts]

I'd like to figure out what lies within Uranus.

[@bigboam]

I just assumed it would have a gooey caramel center...

[@michaelberg8226]

Jupiter Smupiter everyone please stop arguing and fighting or you get a 5:00 penalty for fighting. So instead why don't one of us ask the lunar cats Luna and Artemis about the planet Jupiter they seem to know it well and they will probably agree that if 1 human tried to get into Jupiter he or she will be crushed to death by it's gravity field and it can do the same to super heroes 2. Krption aliens Lexcaion aliens Power Rangers Beetleborgs Good Guy Mutants those who are puffed like humans and somehow it can crush Sailor Scouts to death (even Sailor Jupiter) So It's so impossible that gas giant has kept it's secrets to itself and never give them up. Trust me I know about this planet a lot more. And I still can't believe they threw Gailio Gaili in jail because of this.

[@throwaway2011]

Why does everyone say nothing, hydrogen, methane, and other jupiter's gasses are actually more flammable then oxygen

[@seapeddler]

@jalbano88 I can grasp some of what you say. Jupiter, like all bodies in the galaxy, gets its' electricity from the galactic core, ad infinitum. So, in M13, because of the intense frequency overlapping, would planets be able to form and achieve stable orbits? I understood that Arecibo sent transmissions to M13 at one point in time. Why ?

[@MichaelSayle]

Jupiter has giant air-jellyfish like creatures that float around in the higher atmospheres of the planet and eat floating vegetation and smaller fast traveling air surfing creatures!

[@throwaway2011]

what happens if someone lights a match on jupiter

[@dtiydr]

After the phosphourus burned up the flame will distinguish, or what do you mean? English is no my main language if something was wrong there or so..

[@DaveNarn]

Launched on a mighty Atlas V rocket, powered by a Russian designed RD-180 engine and solid rocket boosters. We wait till 8/2016 to finally settle the long debated question of Jupiter's solid core. Marshmallow nugget, or chewy chocolate?

[@vistigioful]

Wouldn't that be awesome if we could go inside Jupiter.

[@HassanAsuka]

Face of jopiter is great

[@jalbano88]

@jalbano88 PS - Hydrogen anions are formed when additional electrons are acquired... So when there's a strong magnetic field, we get H-, possible changing from H+ to H- in fraction of second and with it recreating his own magnetic fiel. On teory you could get the same resolt if able to store liquid hydrogen and run true it AC corrent.. The more higher the frequency (hz) the more rapid it would change from H+ to H-! - Logic no? - This is what should be ScienceAtNASA

[@caffeinepizza]

Why don't you hop on a ship, go to Jupiter, and see if you can light a match on it and report back.

[@theWACKIIRAQI]

damn son...400 years and still dunno wutta hell is inside there?

[@Mentox95]

They can zoom in to Light years planets.. but they can't zoom inside the fuking JUPITER????

[@terrysilvester4720]

You're either a troll or just unbelievable dumb.

[@sadjupiter502]

It's because it doesn't exist watch crrow777's videos and learn the truth. Don't be fooled by the lies the illuminati forces on the weak minded.

[@Mentox95]

T. Dirac HAHAHAha no bro it exist! it's just they can zoom in to so long distance , but not fucking zoom in to orbit planets.

[@sadjupiter502]

oh, if its real then it must be because angular resolving power of a telescope is diffraction limited. Basically, a point source of light, when viewed through any optical instrument, will NOT focus back to a point. read more here: answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120730111238AAuetBz

[@kennethwarring7681]

Mentox95 They don't zoom into exoplanets, they just use reflections and light to differentiate objects such as planets to just empty space. And even if we had ridiculously powerful telescopes we couldn't even penetrate the extremely thick clouds.

[@ActionParsnip]

How can a non-entity do anything...? Strange.

[@throwaway2011]

HYDROGEN is extremely flammable, so is methan and most of the other chemicals, the hindenburg burned so fast due to being filled with hydrogen.

[@trevorardito1463]

if the hydrogen is metallic do the atoms no longer have covalent bonds?

[@caffeinepizza]

you need an oxidizer. hence, oxygen.

[@Xtariz]

Mercury.... like u can use that for powering space ships...

[@dtiydr]

Aha ok you ment like that, well first the concentration of hydrogen is way to low to be able to start a fission of hydrogen and the type of hydrogen that is used for a hydrogen bomb its actually not the gas hydrogen but tritium and deuterium which doesnt exist on jupiter, at least not in the ammount needed if at all, so no it would not work even with a nuke. :)

[@dragonquestwahoo]

that was back in 2011

[@leibowitz1942]

@FelipiNASA2 Didn't the video say that Juno would spend a full year orbiting Jupiter, taking measurements at all latitudes? Didn't it? Wasn't I listening? Or was that narrator just too difficult to hear?

[@kennbuzzerszks]

i think oxygen supports burning and hydrogen is flammable. no oxygen would mean no burning

[@mjboudx]

If someone is here, and they're watching a video like this, then I like to believe they are trying. I understand where you are coming from. Ignorance can be infuriating to watch, but they could be watching a comedy or a music video. Instead they're here, learning for the sake of learning. Those are just my thoughts on it.

[@numlock30]

Always wondered this

[@dtiydr]

They doesn´t say anything about that it contains any mercury so i don´t know whre you got that from.

[@rpgtutubo]

Remember: don't go inside the monolith.

[@FelipiComI]

@Triple88a I'm not talking about the instruments, I'm talking about safety! You can't read: "So the EXPOSURE time is low, but is still powerful!". You're so pissed because of this mistake! LOL!! And I saw several informations in the JUNO interactive website. That's all!

[@Jakefr0m_StateFarm]

I'm pretty sure it consists of nickel and iron.

[@Joricky12]

Dont know much about space, but why exactly?

[@Thrvsh]

Jupiter a gas giant.There is no surface.So if a probe try to land on it, The probe probably will go through it.

[@caffeinepizza]

I would send that data to NASA. It would be awesome news for them to find out that there is a surface on Saturn. Also, send them pics.

[@Riotboy1]

The Juno spacecraft is such a hipster.

[@Boogyman4050]

@FelipiNASA2...Would Jupiter's magnetic field take out a spacecrafts computers and most electrical power due to a EM type pulse? I'm assuming within a certain distance the answer is Yes? Would need backup power source to counter this? Plus, the radiation you mentioned is a problem for humans.

[@asyncasync]

Well no - at that size it would collapse into a black hole. So if you put your hand in it - your hand is gone... for good.

[@rgrielf]

Me too, three days ago.

[@SomeRandomPictures]

There are 2 things that creep me out, clowns and jupiter...

[@mjboudx]

Well, everybody knows that too much cosmological data makes you go blind.

[@Space_Pirate1]

Awkward if the core of the Jupiter is a potato.

[@throwaway2011]

hydrogen is highly flammable too

[@KOSMICxKLASHER2]

Proofread??? Its like you didn't even read my comment. He doesn't say a kind to it's slippery mercury. He clearly said that it is a liquid form of hydrogen akin to the slippery mercury in an old fashion thermometer. What are you talking about??? You did say something about a rock core, hit show comment a couple times...Your original comment said does Jupiter have a rock core, and if it does have a rock core how big is it?

[@reidhb1]

So the gases act like the ocean on earth at sufficient depth.