00:00Jupiter is one of our solar system's most mysterious worlds, but what if you could peel
00:08back its swirling clouds?
00:10What would you see as you fell through its depths?
00:13Floating through the uppermost atmosphere, the gas giant would begin pulling you in at
00:18a modest 110,000 miles per hour, per Business Insider.
00:22In the freezing ammonia cloud tops, you'd face winds whipping around the planet at over
00:27300 miles per hour.
00:29That's thanks to its brisk 10-hour rotation, says NASA.
00:33Deeper down, you'd sink through thick plumes of sulfur and phosphorus-rich gases.
00:38After about 400 miles, you'd be experiencing pressures nearly a thousand times what you're
00:42used to on Earth.
00:44About 2,500 miles down, get ready for some heat.
00:47We're talking 6,100 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot enough to melt tungsten.
00:5313,000 miles down would bring you to the innermost layer, where the temperature is hotter than
00:58the surface of the sun.
01:00You'd be falling through the largest ocean in the solar system, says NASA, made of liquid
01:05hydrogen as dense as solid rock.
01:07The pressure would be so intense that the hydrogen might be compressed to an electrically
01:13conducting metallic form.
01:15This buoyant metallic hydrogen would counteract the pull of gravity, keeping you in place.
01:20If you somehow managed to reach the planet's center, you'd have fallen 44,000 miles, or
01:25five and a half Earths stacked on top of each other.
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