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I was working at the observatory and uh someone came in with a question about landing in Jupiter- right away my brain was like no, it’s a gas giant and there’s too much pressure for a probe to make it to the solid surface, but I’ve also been trying to think of it in terms of the force applied by the gas on a solid object.
When you have a gas, it definitely cannot provide the required upwards force needed to go against the weight acting on a solid object. What if you had a high enough mass of gas, and high enough pressure? Would it still not work because 1) the particles aren’t always hitting the solid object (I thinking of a small solid object in this case) and 2) when the pressure is high enough to support the object, the pressure outside is greater than the inside and so the object crumbles and won’t be “landing” anyways 3) gasses are always in motion so the same amount of gas isn’t always under the object This wasn’t a very complicated question, but I’m just wondering what happens at a smaller scale, because why not.
When you have a gas, it definitely cannot provide the required upwards force needed to go against the weight acting on a solid object. What if you had a high enough mass of gas, and high enough pressure? Would it still not work because 1) the particles aren’t always hitting the solid object (I thinking of a small solid object in this case) and 2) when the pressure is high enough to support the object, the pressure outside is greater than the inside and so the object crumbles and won’t be “landing” anyways 3) gasses are always in motion so the same amount of gas isn’t always under the object This wasn’t a very complicated question, but I’m just wondering what happens at a smaller scale, because why not.