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What is Jupiters surface made up of?

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The Jovian Planets do not have an "surface" as we know it. Since they are composed primarily of hydrogen, ammonia, and methance, these gases gradually compress/condense to a suspended soupy mixture thousands of kilometres below the cloud tops. As one goes deeper, this "soupy" mixture gradually becomes a vast ocean of liquid hydrogen made possible under massive pressure. One can still go deeper and the liquid hydrogen starts to behave like a metal under the fantastic pressure of 10's of thousands of kilometres of atmosphere. That's why Jupiter, especially, as a strong magnetic field. This vast ball of rapidly spinning liquid metallic hydrogen acts like a giant dynamo! It is presumed that each the Jovian Planets each have a rocky core roughly the size of earth.

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Its made of gases, dust, and there's a wind on Jupiter it blows the dust. That's what Jupiter is mostly made of :D

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jupiter is a gas giant so there is no land,it is made up of hydrogen and helium. plus its has storms on it so its pretty much impossible to live on jupiter

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the surface of the planet Jupiter is mainly made up of gas. it contains more amout of helium and hydrogen

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