Wednesday, October 14, 2015

What If We Move to Jupiter

So, after breathe litres of CO2 in Mars and Venus, holding your breathe in Mercury, what happens next? Wait, there's still many planet for you to stay there, so your suffering don't lifted up. Now I will assigned you to Jupiter, largest planet in Solar System. So... what will happen if you move to Jupiter?

Jupiter size. That small circle are Earth
1. You Will Crushed By Large Gravitational Forces
I promise this time I will not write about you can't breathe. So we start with this. Because it enormous size, (it mass were 317x larger than the Earth mass) it will have very high gravitational forces. Your body are only adapted to Earth gravitational forces not Jupiter gravitational forces, so your body can't resist the gravitational force at Jupiter. Your bone will crushed, your skin will destroyed, your brain will be juice for zombie to drink. That's scary? No. You will not scared because before you can scream around your body has crushed. So I think you will RIP (maybe the last P must changed into J, Rest In Jupiter)

2. You Can't Standing
Yeah, Jupiter is large planet, but you will have to wait if you want summer vacation there, except you want to spend your vacation at hot air balloon. Because Jupiter are gasses planet that contains hydrogen and helium (that answer all of your questions) so you can't just walk around. The Jupiter colonisation are maybe using air balloon that burn hydrogen to keep flying and harvest the helium-3, isotope of helium that rare in Earth, but in giant gas planet are common. Helium-3 is can be use for clean energy. But, maybe you want to control that air balloon from Earth if you want to be easy.

Jupiter temperature
3. You Will.....Freezing or Melting?
This depends on what layer you want to stay. If you want to stay in surface (actually it wasn't surface, it don't contains any  surface, it only scientists term for place where the pressure is same as the Earth) to 30 miles above the ground, the temperature is decreasing if you climbed the atmosphere. It have temperature range from -100℃~-160℃. If you want to climbing the atmosphere stair to next layer, the temperature increase if you climbed above. The temperature is can become -100℃ again as you rising and at the highest point it can reach 725℃. Just prepared what did you need, Heat Clothes or Cold Clothes.

Jupiter orbit. © Todd K. Timberlake
4. Your Calendar Need To Be Adjusted
Because 1 years in Jupiter is as same as 4332 Earth Day or 11,8 Earth Years. This because it position. Jupiter-Sun distance is about 5 times than Earth-Sun distance. This resulting very long orbiting period. So, while (technically, because you celebrate your birthday every Jupiter years) your age is younger than your age at the Earth, you will have to wait 11 year to celebrate New Year, 1 decades at Jupiter is 110 years, 1 century in Jupiter is 1100 years, 1 millennium is 11000 years. So if Halley Comet are closing to the Sun in Earth years is 75-76 years, if you using Jupiter calendar The Halley Comet just need 6,8 Jupiter Years for every it's perihelion.

Jupiter atmosphere composition.
5. You Can't Breathe
Hmm.... yeah, what is other best answer? So I break my promise, forgive me ;). You can't breathe because there's only small trace of Oxygen. The Jupiter, like Sun, are make from Helium and Hydrogen (I has told you, look again at 2nd number). Now to colonize the Jupiter, don't use the Mars Rover that can transform CO2→O2. Why? First reason Jupiter real surface are many miles below the atmosphere. Second reason, Jupiter are also only have abundant number of CO2, so that CO2 transformer are useless. Third reason, look the name. The Mars Rover are should be used in Mars, not in Jupiter or Halley Comet.

FROM THIS SERIES:   Mercury
                                      Venus
                                      Mars
                                      Jupiter
                                      Saturn
                                      Uranus
                                      Neptune