More so the grim question: if you were in a typical space suit sitting in a ship just outside Jupiter, then propelled yourself towards the planet - what would kill you first?
Assume you are close enough that from the moment you are launched out, you are “in” the atmosphere at the outer edges. Also assume moving fast enough that the answer is not “dying from dehydration”.
I discussed a bit with GPT 4o and came to the conclusion that shear wind gusts of over 300mph in the upper atmosphere would probably do it. You’d hit that almost instantly, before high pressure, temperature or highly corrosive materials.
A fascinating, unexplored yet frequent use case, I am sure :)
(Positing these "what-ifs")
PS. On that note: All the recent space probes are yielding much interesting information on this.-
It was a thought provoking conversation, regardless of whether it was absolutely accurate.
then wouldn't the movement kill you?
The Galileo probe needed a heat shield to survive dropping into atmosphere. The 225g deceleration would have killed any human. It is presumed to be destroyed from the temperature and pressure.
Although, you might die from the radiation first.
‘Jupiter’s radiation belts – and how to survive them’: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...
One conjecture is metallic hydrogen.
Yet this article notes liquid Hydrogen towards the core and ice in the core. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen
The triple point diagram https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/hydrogen-d_1419.html suggests temperatures in this range would not yield anything solid or liquid.
If you look at your triple point graph, it stops several order of magnitude below.
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