Hello Steemit! A very Good Day to you all. Hope you are all spending a good time along with your family and dear ones. After reading the rules of Steemit and after doing the research of some good writer’s way of writing, I am bringing my first post on “What Would Happen If You Fell Into SATURN?” Please excuse me if I miss something. Hope you people will read my article and provide your valuable suggestions and thoughts by commenting below.
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In today's article, we are going to be imagining what would happen if you fell through a gas giant? Specifically, let's actually follow through Saturn. Just like the Cassini Mission back in 2017. So, let's just imagine that here you are working for NASA or between Saturn and suddenly something happens and unfortunately your cable snaps and you start losing orbital velocity and then start falling into this beautiful gas giant at which point you might actually start freaking out. Now, let's actually find out what would happen as you go through these layers of gas giant stuff and what would actually end up happening at the end and of course back home on Earth the NASA and whoever else is involved with the mission is probably freaking out. But they're curious to find out what actually happens to your body?
Now, as you start falling through the upper atmosphere of Saturn, you actually realize that the gravity here is not that much stronger than on Earth. So, your actual velocity will be very similar to the upper atmospheres of Earth and you're going to be falling through some layers that might seem familiar. But have a different color and these first letters are just going to be ammonia clouds. Specifically, white ammonia clouds, but your descent speed is going to be relatively large. You might be moving at speeds close to one kilometre per second. Yet, views will be pretty spectacular. The temperature however is going to be pretty cold. So, you may want to bring extra layers inside your suit. But it is going to be slowly warming up about 15 minutes later things will start changing and you'll actually start experiencing slight darkness and as you go deeper and deeper into the atmosphere is going to become darker and darker. Now a few minutes later you're going to start seeing a second deck of clouds and this is actually something different and compose these are ammonium hydrosulfide and ammonium sulphide broke out. So, they're actually going to be brown in color and the air pressure at this point actually increases to above the air pressure even on the surface of Earth.
So, you're going to start slowing down quite dramatically because the gravity here is a about the same as on Earth. But the atmospheric pressure increases with your fall and right after you pass the second layer of clouds things will get slightly or actually dramatically darker. We're going to actually barely see even our own hands now and then a few minutes later you're going to start reaching the third layer of clouds and the pressure here is going to start dramatically increasing two… four… five… six… and almost 10 atmospheres. So, you're going to actually feel quite squeezed if you didn't bring some sort of your pressurization device anxiety suit and as you're falling through these water clouds that look kind of similar to Earth you actually started seeing a lot of interesting things including a lightning that is going to brighten your day a little bit or possibly electrocute you and kill you right there and with pressure being at least 5 atmospheres now you actually might start experiencing what's known as the oxygen toxicity. This is actually a condition that starts occurring and can even kill you if you bring a normal air composition inside your suit. Do you actually have to start changing the composition of your air that you breathe in order for you not to die from toxicity of oxygen and now things get pretty dark and you start getting really compressed.
But it is since you're mostly the air inside of you will get compressed the rest of you will actually be fine. Now, you start seeing a lot of lightning and thunder and you probably started getting really scared because we're going to die pretty soon and as you fall through you actually start experiencing quite a lot of winds with speeds almost 200 meters per second or 720 calories per hour and things become really dark. Now, this is actually the part where the temperature might actually become comfortable 23 degrees Celsius, basically, room temperature. But as the time passes after about half an hour you're actually going to start getting in trouble as the temperature increases to almost hundred degree Celsius or the boiling temperature of water. More pressure, more darkness, very very hot and as things warm up you realize that hydrogen no longer behaves as a gas and it becomes very liquidy. So, you basically float through this hydrogen that becomes more and more hot first thousand degrees Celsius when it actually starts glowing red and you finally start seeing things and obviously die. But let's assume that your suit has some sort of protection then 5000 degrees Celsius and basically starts glowing kind of like a Sun or a Star and then you reach 10,000 degrees Celsius and this is at a depth of about 20,000 kilometers where things become very unusual, very strange and you start experiencing things like helium rain. For example, which is something that you don't see very often on Earth or actually peril and at this depth.
Obviously, you're probably dead one. But we're assuming that you're still alive for some reason. You reach what's known as the liquid metal hydrogen. Now, this is essentially hydrogen behaving as a liquid metal which is what's responsible for generating and tremendously powerful magnetosphere around all of the Ice Giants and at this point hydrogen starts acting as a kind of a supercritical material that is kind of liquid kind of gas and is same density as you so you don't sink anymore. But let's just say you brought some lead shoes or some other material that allows you to sink even more and so you actually go through the unusual liquid metal hydrogen and start sinking even more. Now, this material will actually dissolve everything including you and your suit. But we're imagining things! So, we're going to imagine that you didn't get to dissolve in this unusual material and you keep sinking. Even lower the temperatures here are ridiculous as our pressures is probably about two million atmospheres and the temperature is over ten thousand degrees Celsius and possibly even eleven thousand degrees Celsius. But nothing stops us at this point! We keep sinking more and more for about fifteen thousand kilometres and because this material is actually very dense. You're going to be full in sinking for many weeks and at some point we're going to reach solid ground. Now, this is actually made out of rock, exotic ices, metals and the combination of materials. We'll probably can't even imagine because we've never seen them except for some extreme cases in the laboratories. You're basically standing on what might be considered to be the core of a gas giant and then kind of starts slowly walking away hoping one day to return to Earth. But in reality you're long dead because well there's no way you can survive in these conditions anyway. So, that's all I wanted to show in this article and hopefully you'll learn a little bit about What would happen if you fell through a gas giant specifically Saturn? Now, it's not something you would not like to experience because it's probably going to be very painful. But you know we'll talk more about this in some of the future articles and thank you for reading my article. Come back tomorrow to learn and discuss something else. I'll see you guys later, till then take good care of you and yours’ family! :)
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