– If we somehow managed to travel to a gas giant (like Jupiter or Saturn) and reach his core, what would we see? There would be a rocky surface at any point?

Question

I saw some random fact about planets and now I wonder if it is even physically possible to build something that is able to reach the core of a planet like Jupiter.

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

We don’t know. However, it’s worth pointing out phases aren’t exactly as cleanly seperable as we sometimes think of them because we often visualize standard conditions, like we have on earth. If it has a “solid” part, it’s likely less a surface and more a composition change in what is already extreme conditions we could never reach.

Jupiter is a gas giant with miles of clouds going towards the surface, then thousands of miles of gas that transitions into liquid. Underneath that? No clue if it’s solid.