What If I Jumped Into Jupiter?

Jupiter has no ground, no ocean and no surface. So if I jump in, where do I actually stop? I fall past the clouds, past the last signal from NASA's Galileo probe, and into an ocean of liquid metal to find the exact depth where falling ends. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 What if I jumped into Jupiter? 0:49 The rules of the jump 1:23 Sixty kilometers per second 2:18 Depth zero: into the clouds 3:02 Galileo's last signal 3:39 The deeper I go, the slower I fall 4:16 Why there is no surface 4:48 Where the winds end 5:21 The ocean of liquid metal 5:55 The rule that stops me 6:44 The fuzzy core 7:06 The meter stops 7:29 So, where do I stop? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 SOURCES & NOTES • Depth zero is the 1-bar level, the standard reference level for Jupiter's atmosphere. • NASA Jupiter Fact Sheet: size, mass, gravity, escape velocity, temperature. • NASA, Galileo probe: entered December 7, 1995, 58 minutes of data, estimated to have vaporized afterward. • Galileo entry: about 47 km/s, peak about 228 g, around 14,000 K (NASA NSSDC entry timeline; Milos 1997). • Galileo descent: lost near 22-24 bar, about 150 km down (Seiff et al. 1998, JGR). • NASA Galileo Project, Jupiter's Interior: cloud layer about 50 km thick; gas changes gradually to liquid. • Parisi et al. 2021, Science: Great Red Spot within the upper 500 km. • Becker et al. 2020, Nature: shallow lightning. • Kaspi et al. 2018 and Guillot et al. 2018, Nature: jets about 3,000 km deep, about 1% of the mass, near-rigid rotation below. • Wilson & Militzer 2010, PRL, and Brygoo et al. 2021, Nature: helium rain near 2 million bar and 5,000 C. Metallic hydrogen depth varies between models. • Wahl et al. 2017, GRL, and Militzer et al. 2024: dilute core. • Our own estimates, not measurements: the 14,000 km stopping depth uses a simple density model and assumes a body held at constant size. Fall speeds and the two-month sink time are rough terminal velocity estimates and could differ by a factor of a few. • The suit is fiction. A real person would not survive the entry. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Tori Explains for more stories & explainers. 🤖 Tori is an animated character with an AI-generated voice. The script was written and fact-checked for this channel. #jupiter #space #science #whatif #toriexplains