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Chapter 131: Entering Jupiter, the Death Star [New book on the shelves, please beg for full order, third update]

Jupiter, one of the nine planets in the solar system, is the largest, fastest-rotating planet among the nine planets in the solar system, and the fifth farthest planet from the sun.

It is 2.5 times the combined mass of the other eight planets in the solar system.

At the same time, Jupiter is the only planet in the solar system that dares to compete with the sun!

There is an "asteroid belt" between Jupiter and Mars. About 98% of the asteroids currently observable by humans are in orbit between Mars and Jupiter.

Most of the asteroids in the sun are planetesimals of the primitive solar nebula. These nebulae already existed in the early stages of the formation of the sun. The planetesimals in the nebula will collide with each other and then merge into planets, or they will collide into fragments and debris and be thrown out.

In the early days, the sun was surrounded by planetesimals, but now most of these planetesimals remain between Mars and Jupiter. This is because the mass of Jupiter produces gravitational disturbances.

Scientific research has found that these planetesimals are not only affected by the gravitational pull from the sun, but also by the gravitational pull from Jupiter, and eventually are caused to be relatively close to Jupiter.

These planetesimals did not merge into planets, but became the asteroid belt.

The asteroid belt is 2.2 to 3.2 astronomical units from the sun, or 329 million to 478.7 million kilometers.

The average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is 5.205 astronomical units, or 778.3 million kilometers.

It can be said that the asteroid is between Jupiter and the sun, or even more biased towards Jupiter.

However, Jupiter's mass is only one thousandth that of the Sun!

This is a very incredible phenomenon.

With its smaller mass, Jupiter is evenly matched in the gravitational battle with the Sun, and even has the upper hand!

No one knows why.

In order to solve this mystery, humans further studied Jupiter and the sun.

Jupiter is a gas giant planet, accounting for 70% of the mass of all planets in the solar system. It is mainly composed of hydrogen, and hydrogen accounts for 75% of Jupiter's total mass.

The second element is helium, accounting for 25% of the total mass. The rock core contains other heavier elements, but very little.

Jupiter takes less than 10 hours to rotate once, and it is a gas giant. Because it rotates too fast, it becomes an oblate spheroid with a slight but visible bulge near the equator, so it is also called a "flexible fat man" by some scientists.

At the same time, Jupiter's outer atmosphere is divided into multiple zones according to latitude, and the edges of each zone are prone to turbulence and storms. The most famous example is the Great Red Spot.

The Great Red Spot is a characteristic symbol on the surface of Jupiter. It is the largest storm cyclone on Jupiter. It is about 25,000 kilometers long and spans 12,000 kilometers up and down. It rotates counterclockwise every six Earth days, often rolling up 8,000-meter-high cyclones. Cloud Tower!

Since astronomers first observed this storm in the 17th century, the Great Red Spot has existed for at least 200 to 350 years!

Jupiter is also called the death planet for this reason. The maximum wind speed on Jupiter reaches 130~150 meters per second, or 458~540 kilometers per hour, which is much faster than the high-speed rail and can tear people into pieces in an instant!

At the same time, there is a thick atmosphere around Jupiter, and strong winds intensify the collision of positive and negative clouds, so lightning and thunderstorms often occur on Jupiter.

According to scientists' observations, you can encounter thunderstorms that are 10,000 times more frequent on Jupiter than on Earth!

The atmosphere on Jupiter is also denser than the atmosphere on Earth, and thunder travels faster. Therefore, on Jupiter, humans must wear the best sound-isolating earmuffs, otherwise their eardrums will be easily shattered!

In addition, Jupiter has the most satellites in the solar system.

At present, humans have discovered a total of 79 satellites around Jupiter.

Two of them are larger than Mercury, four are larger than the moon, and the largest Ganymede has a diameter of 5256 kilometers, which is about two-fifths of the Earth's stars. It may even give birth to life!

The above is humanity’s general understanding of Jupiter.

Human civilization's understanding of Jupiter is still very limited, and only exists in the information detected by various detectors.

Since Jupiter is a gas giant planet, humans cannot yet explore it by landing like a lithospheric planet. There is no place for landing on Jupiter, so we can only use probes to orbit and enter Jupiter's atmosphere.

But so far, human probes have never entered Jupiter's atmosphere.

The closest detector to Jupiter was in August 2011, when NASA launched a new generation of Jupiter detectors - Juno!

After five years of flight, Juno successfully reached the orbit of Jupiter on July 4, 2016 and began its exploration plan for Jupiter.

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But Juno only reached the orbit of Jupiter and did not actually enter Jupiter.

In other words, humans have never really gotten close to Jupiter.

But all this, starting from today, will be completely rewritten.

After 96 hours of flight, with the help of water droplets, Jiang Xuan finally arrived near Jupiter.

The distance between the Earth and Jupiter is too far, 1.3 billion kilometers!

It took Juno five years to finally reach Jupiter's orbit.

If it weren't for the speed of water droplets approaching the speed of light, Jiang Xuan would never have been able to fly to Jupiter in four days and watch Jupiter up close.

Of course, if a curvature engine is used, the speed of the water droplets will be faster, but Jiang Xuan and the Iron Man suit cannot bear it.

In fact, Jiang Xuan could have reached Jupiter earlier. After all, if the water droplets used light beams to fly, it would only take about 72 hours to reach Jupiter.

But neither the Iron Man suit nor Jiang Xuan could stand this speed, so they could only slow down the water droplets slightly.

Fortunately, it only delayed one day, which was still within Jiang Xuan's acceptance range.

"Jarvis, chart a path forward!"

Looking at the behemoth in front of him, even Jiang Xuan was shocked by the hugeness of Jupiter.

At the same time, Jiang was stunned by the harsh environment on Jupiter.

If he hadn't worn the Iron Man suit and not been protected by the power of faith, he wouldn't have been able to stay on Jupiter for even a second!

"The route has been planned, do you want to navigate?"

After waiting for about half an hour, Jarvis finally planned a feasible route.

The reason why it took so long was, on the one hand, that Jupiter's environment was too complex, and on the other hand, Jarvis's lack of understanding of Jupiter.

Even if you enter the core database of Earth Star, the information found is very limited.

"Xiao Jin, get ready, we are going in!"

After saying that, Jiang Xuan drove the water droplet into the extremely terrifying Jupiter!

This is also the first time humans have visited Jupiter!

Through the Iron Man suit and Jarvis, Jiang Xuan broadcast the process live!

This is the first live broadcast of humans across the planet!

The delay alone is more than ninety hours long!

But on Earth, countless people are still looking forward to the moment when the picture appears!