What does the surface of a gas giant look like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s__rX_WL100

>>8326833
solid hydrogen in case of Jupiter

>>8326833
Jupiter has a super-heated solid and very dense core that is made up of hydrogen. There is no surface, there is a point in the layers of hydrogen/helium gas where the atmospheric pressure is equal to that of Earth and you could consider that a 'surface' but the gravity at that point would be 2.5 stronger than Earth's.

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>>8326864
>>8326936
>solid hydrogen
Hydrogen can never reach a solid state inside a gas giant because of the temperature. The core, if it still exists, is rocky just like most terrestrial planetary cores. Above that is a continuum of hydrogen going from metallic fluid near the core, to molecular fluid farther out, and eventually a molecular gas H2, which merges into space with decreasing density like a typical atmosphere. There's also Helium and small amount of other elements mixed in here, some of which produce clouds and the various colors of Jupiter's bands.

>>8326936
>>8327120
so what you're saying is it's just a giant ball of gas?

>>8327138
Yes.

>>8327138
>gas
*fluid

>>8327138
>>8327120

Nobody knows exactly what Jupiter's internal state is, that's why NASA sent that probe there so they can study the core of Jupiter. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2016/07mar_jupiter/

It is believed there is a massive ocean of liquid metal hydrogen due to the pressure being so great that it squeezes the electrons out of the hydrogen atoms and the fluid starts to conduct like a metal.

>>8327153
True, which is why I noted the uncertainty about the existence of a rocky core.

But we're absolutely sure that there's no solid hydrogen because that makes no sense for the sort of temperature and pressure you'd seen inside Jupiter. It should all be fluid of varying density and likely metallic at some point.

>>8327120
okay

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>>8326833
>surface
>gas giant

lol

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>Hurr whur do we put thur flaag?

American education, everyone