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Old 02-September-2004, 05:48 AM
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Default Flying thru a giant gas planet...

I was thinking of the hypothetical possibility of a human-made probe to fly thru a Jupiter-like planet and come out the other side?

I guess the first thing to take in account is if gas planet has a solid or liquid core. I guess inside a planet as massive as Jupiter the pressure must be so great the gas would be liquid or even solid at the center. I’m not sure about the physics of this.

I guess any kind of machine that travels inside one of these planets would have to stand great pressures and of course the enormous gravity of the planet itself. Anyone have any theories about the feasibility of this?
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