There is no surface anywhere on Jupiter to land on or crash into, just hydrogen that thickens with depth until it stops behaving like a gas and starts conducting electricity like a metal, so a descending probe would be crushed and absorbed into the planet long before it ever found solid ground

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There is no surface anywhere on Jupiter to land on or crash into, just hydrogen that thickens with depth until it stops behaving like a gas and starts conducting electricity like a metal, so a descending probe would be crushed and absorbed into the planet long before it ever found solid ground

What looks like a planetary surface is actually an illusion—Jupiter has no ground, only an infinite descent into crushing pressures and exotic states of matter.

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