• Question: what whould happen if we touched juipter

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      Asked by 323merf34 to Waqar on 21 Jun 2016.
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        Waqar Ahmed answered on 21 Jun 2016:

        Hi

        The first thing we need to do is try and get to Jupiter. We need to make some sort of spacecraft that can travel on solar or nuclear energy. It will take a very long time to get there, at least for now.
        Once we arrive at Jupiter, because we already know it has a higher gravity strength than Earth, around 2.5 times the gravity, we would get pulled into its atmosphere, which is made up of mostly hydrogen and nitrogen.

        We have not yet been inside Jupiter so there could be a very hot core (because hydrogen is crushed so tightly in the centre), but our best bet is to maybe colonise one of Jupiter’s moons first.

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