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Asked by Ciara on 23 Nov 2020.
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Liudmila Khokhlova answered on 23 Nov 2020:
There’re a few problems with living on Jupiter. First, it mostly consists of hydrogen and helium, meaning you literally couldn’t stand there (you would just fall to death). There’s probably a solid core somewhere in the middle, but it’s way too hot there and the pressure is enormous. Jupiter is also very big, so 2.5 x Earth gravity will make everything heavier. Jupiter is surrounded by an enormous magnetic field, ten times more powerful than Earth’s and the radiation there is a million times more powerful, so you somehow need to get through that first. I would say Jupiter is not a place to live ever. Jupiter moons are a bit less unwelcoming, so maybe we can try them.
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Duncan Wallace answered on 23 Nov 2020: last edited 24 Nov 2020 11:22 am
As Liudmila says, living in or on Jupiter is fairly impossible because it’s just made of gas (and even using something that could hang in Jupiter’s sky wouldn’t be a good idea as is full of dangerous storms).
The moons of Jupiter are quite different.
* There are 4 main moons.
* The first one is called Io, is covered in volcanoes and is incredibly poisonous, so that doesn’t have much promise.
* The second moon is called Europa. It is also quite poisonous on the surface (radiation to be exact). However it is covered in what looks like thin ice. Scientists believe there is a vast ocean on Europa beneath this icy shell, which could hypothetically be colonised.
* The third and fourth moons are Ganymede and Callisto. Neither of these have the radiation that Io or Europa has. They both have very thick layers of ice, but again scientists believe there might be oceans on these two moons.
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