How would a human die on Jupiter?

Answer 1

A human would not be able to survive on Jupiter without a whole lot of sophisticated equipment that we currently lack the ability to make and that we are not yet able to get to Jupiter in the first place. In addition:

• The distance from the sun would leave a human frozen to death
• The intense atmospheric storms would kill them
• The atmosphere would not support human life
• Intense radiation
• No Surface to stand on.
• The upper atmosphere would be tolerable in a spacecraft
• The gravity is 3 times that of Earth

Answer 2

We don't think Jupiter has a surface per se, so "on Jupiter" is not well defined. Taking the 1 bar pressure level as a reasonable definition of "on Jupiter" it would probably be the wind (a category 5 hurricane is a light breeze by Jovian standards; the wind speed on Jupiter is approximately that of a tornado all the time).

If you were sheltered from the wind, you'd die of asphyxiation; there's no free oxygen in Jupiter's atmosphere to speak of, but there is plenty of the toxic ammonium hydrosulfide and the even more toxic ammonium sulfide.

Okay, so let's give you a respirator. Now you die from the heat. It's about 340K at that pressure level (around 150 degrees Fahrenheit).

There's also the fact that, since there's no surface for you to stand on there, you'd be free-falling at about 25 meters per second per second. And conditions don't get any better below that ... it just keeps getting hotter and hotter, and the winds don't let up any, and there's still no oxygen.

Answer 3

You would need to go down in a closed spaceship, with enough fuel to take you out again. You would have to be lying all the time, due to the immense gravity.

You would need to go down in a closed spaceship, with enough fuel to take you out again. You would have to be lying all the time, due to the immense gravity.

You would need to go down in a closed spaceship, with enough fuel to take you out again. You would have to be lying all the time, due to the immense gravity.

You would need to go down in a closed spaceship, with enough fuel to take you out again. You would have to be lying all the time, due to the immense gravity.

Answer 4

Indeterminate, as we don't know if there is core of solid matter for a creature to be "on".

Life, if such exists, would have to be the equivalent of what we call "aquatic" life, or in the case of Jupiter, being mostly Hydrogen, "Hydrotic" life.

They would have to be much like our deep sea creatures, only more so, to deal with the enormous pressures of Jupiter's gravity. It is doubtful that intelligent life could develop on a planet in which no fire could be discovered.

Realistically, for creatures to live in Jupiter, one would have to speculate about aliens who had developed on another planet, invented star drive ships, and chose to live in artificial environments in and about Jupiter for the convenience of a near unlimited supply of hydrogen to power fusion reactors.

In actuality, should we ever develop a real space program, living on the moons of Jupiter, and mining the planet for fuel for reactors, would give us a near Utopian lifestyle of plenty and ease.

Answer 5

Naked? No. But with sufficient energy, and technology, there is no reason why Ganymede shouldn't be perfectly comfortable. Human beings live in a lot of very inhospitable places, because our technology allows us to adapt our environment to our comfort. Space, or Ganymede, is not much different.

Io, on the other hand, with its sulfur volcanoes, probably will not be habitable.

Answer 6

You would need to go down in a closed spaceship, with enough fuel to take you out again. You would have to be lying all the time, due to the immense gravity.