Did anyone happen to watch the BBC2 programme on Jupiter and the Juno space probe
that is currently orbiting the thing?? It was on a week or two ago.
Absolutely gob smacking stuff.This huge super giant
planet that dominates our system..is slowly and surely having its secrets uncovered by Juno.
Photographs,x rays infra ,red gravity readings..you name it this probe is doing it.
Turns out that the gas giant isnt actually a huge ball of misty gas as you would imagine it,but has a gas
layer a 1000 or so kms thick...decending through it the pressure becomes unimaginable..they think that there is then a huge ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen and then it looks likely that the planet has a core ..They can only make metallic hydrogen on earth by firing a hundred odd lazers at a tiny sample of hydrogen and then it
only lasts a fraction of a second..
The vast size of the thing and its electomagnetic and gravitic influence on everything else..The programme was even dumbed so that fools like me could understand...I even said WOW out loud when the credits started to roll. Obviously no one heard because no one else in my house was remotely interested in watching it..
Best hours worth of TV that I have watched in ages..
Should still be on I player..give it whirl chaps you might enjoy it...
that is currently orbiting the thing?? It was on a week or two ago.
Absolutely gob smacking stuff.This huge super giant
planet that dominates our system..is slowly and surely having its secrets uncovered by Juno.
Photographs,x rays infra ,red gravity readings..you name it this probe is doing it.
Turns out that the gas giant isnt actually a huge ball of misty gas as you would imagine it,but has a gas
layer a 1000 or so kms thick...decending through it the pressure becomes unimaginable..they think that there is then a huge ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen and then it looks likely that the planet has a core ..They can only make metallic hydrogen on earth by firing a hundred odd lazers at a tiny sample of hydrogen and then it
only lasts a fraction of a second..
The vast size of the thing and its electomagnetic and gravitic influence on everything else..The programme was even dumbed so that fools like me could understand...I even said WOW out loud when the credits started to roll. Obviously no one heard because no one else in my house was remotely interested in watching it..
Best hours worth of TV that I have watched in ages..
Should still be on I player..give it whirl chaps you might enjoy it...