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Old 13-November-2005, 09:13 PM
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Question Gas Gaints-Liquid Surfaces or Gradual Change into Liquid?

Beneath the clouds of our Jovian planets are oceans of liquid hydrogen, or in the case of Uranus & Neptune, an ocean that may be superheated water/ammonia/liquid hydrogen/whatever. Someone posted a link here that said Jupiter's huge ocean of liquid hydrogen has no surface-that the air pressure steadily increases until it inperceptably turns into liquid.

How sound is this hypothesis? What's it based on? Could there be a scenario where one would have a stormy ocean surface whipped about by the violent weather above and heat from below?
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