Interior Of Jupiter
Based on these papers it appears that at this depth the interior of the planet changes to behave like a solid.
Interior of jupiter. However inside jupiter hydrogen can be a liquid or even a kind of metal. Jupiter s mass is 2 5 times that of all the other planets in the solar system combined this is so massive that its barycenter with the sun lies above the sun s surface at 1 068 solar radii from the sun s center. Much thought had been put into what jupiter might look like below its clouds.
Deep inside jupiter researchers believe high temperatures and crushing pressures transform the gas into an exotic form of matter known as liquid metallic hydrogen a liquid form of hydrogen akin to the slippery mercury in an old fashioned thermometer. On the surface of jupiter and on earth those elements are gases. Under the cloud layers when the pressure of the interior becomes high enough the hydrogen of which jupiter is made changes to liquid hydrogen which gradually changes further to liquid metallic hydrogen.
1000 2000 000 earth atmospheres pressure temperature. Recent measurements of sound velocities in jupiter show substantial disagreement with the existing models for the jovian interior. Its volume is that of about 1 321 earths but it is only 318 times as massive.
Interior liquid metallic hydrogen with helium and small amounts of methane water and ammonia pressure. 2000 000 45 000 000 earth atmospheres pressure temperature. The composition of jupiter s interior is mostly the simple molecules hydrogen in the form of liquid.
Jupiter is made primarily of hydrogen but only the outer layers may be in gaseous form. 8000 to 16 000 c 4. Analysis of these measurements suggests that helium he sedimentation through h he phase separation is plausible in the planet s interior contrary to what is believed from numerical calculations of h he mixture at conditions prevailing in jupiter s deep interior.
The atmosphere of jupiter constitutes only a very small fraction of the planet much as the skin of an apple compares with its contents. 1000 to 8000 c 3. These changes happen because of the tremendous temperatures and pressures found at the core.