What eight plants are impossible to explore? Is it possible to venture on Neptune's surface or atmosphere?
>>7647987
Are you including exploring with robots or do you actually mean people in suits on the ground?
>>7647987
If we're talking about human exploration:
Mercury - Too hot
Venus - Could survive in upper atmosphere maybe (that whole blimp idea)
Earth - Duh
Mars - This could also work
Jupiter - Possible to survive in the same conditions as Venus, but much more difficult due to the extreme cold
Saturn - Again, floating on the surface of a gas giant is possible, but I don't know if it would be feasible anytime soon
Uranus - Probably too cold, we'd need some amazing life support
Neptune - Even colder, trip would take a lifetime
Pluto - Not a planet, but basically the same as above.
>>7648044
It would be great though if you actually knew something about planets beyond that one national geographic documentary you saw 10 years ago.
>>7648044
kek
for humans on the ground, we're probably just limited to Mars
Mercury and Venus are too hot
>>7648044
>Pluto - Not a planet
oh....you're one of those people.
>>7648044
first of all, Uranus is actually colder than neptune. And Venus is actually hotter than Mercury. It's not just distance to the sun that matters (especially in the Jovian planets). Secondly, even the calmest of the gas giants have upper atmosphere wind speeds of over 450 mph, I highly doubt any human would ever be able to just "float on the surface". Life is nothing like the magic school bus you basement dwelling fuckwit.
>>7647987
It would be a far better idea to visit the moons of the gas giants
>>7648044
Mercury has ice in craters at its poles.
>>7648044
Jupiter isn't so easy to ride on, because of its surface winds, the hurricanes that lasts for hundrets of years.
Mercury has a really slow rotation period so the other side is freeing. So it's also a candidate for exploration. but it would be pretty insane. Both sides are on some really intense temperatures.
>>7648044
>Mercury - Too hot
Nah, with no atmosphere to worry about, staying cool isn't that big of a challenge. Just stay in the shade and it's otherwise pretty much like living on the Moon. Much easier than trying to hang out in limbo above Venus.
The big issue with Mercury is getting there. It's not a convenient place to stop or even fly by.
>Venus
Yeah, but it's a much more challenging proposition than subsisting in a planet with little to no atmosphere to cause problems.
>Mars
Atmosphere is thick enough for aerobraking, yet thin enough not to cause major thermal management problems. Easily the easiest place to reach and explore other than the Moon and perhaps Phobos.
>Jupiter; Saturn - Possible to survive in the same conditions as Venus, but much more difficult due to the extreme cold
Won't work. Balloons wouldn't float in the atmosphere (unless heated and very, very large) of these two since it's composed of hydrogen and helium. But these planets DO have the most interesting Moons, which could be far more amenable to exploration and settlement.
>Uranus;Neptune
Same problem as Jupiter and Saturn, only the lower temperatures might make it feasible to survive in a hot gas balloon at elevated pressures. Still tremendously more difficult than any of the terrestrial planets.
>Pluto - Not a planet, but basically the same as above.
With no atmosphere, it's again much like trying to live on the Moon or in space. Or more closely, on one of the Jovian moons. VERY difficult to get to, though.
>>7648426
Isn't Jupiter supposed to have a crazy EM belt that makes living on the moons a bad idea?
>>7648208
It's radioactive as shit, too.
This may make exploring it's moons a challenge.
>>7648370
>Both sides are on some really intense temperatures.
It doesn't have an atmosphere, so it's a vacuum on its dark side. Vacuum is a perfect insulator.
Staying warm in a vacuum is not a challenge. Cooling off, is.
>>7648442
Radiator fins! Enough to block out the sun!
>>7648439
>It's radioactive as shit
no.
>>7647987
Now you've got me wondering just how many celestial bodies including the moons in our soloar system we could actually explore. There must be atleast several dozen including all the moons. A base on every body in the solar system, what an achievement for mankind that would be.
>>7648472
>liquid near the core
lel
>>7648472
What an achievement! To be able to establish bases all over the moons and set a commune there! Wow that sounds perfect. Imagine people living in Europa, or Ganemedes or any other moon of Jupiter for example, and come around for a 'vacation break' to Earth.
>>7648173
Mass Effect 2's shadow broker survived just fine
>>7648492
In a warship.
>>7648435
yeah, but Callisto is fine
>>7648477
>Spherical
Top lel.
>>7648426
>Won't work. Balloons wouldn't float in the atmosphere (unless heated and very, very large) of these two since it's composed of hydrogen and helium
it's denser you tard
>>7648492
Oh shit check mate.
We could always just land on some sufficiently large asteroids.
>>7648930
?
Then you are talking solid lifting bodies
A balloon is just going to be squished
>>7648044
isn't the gravity at jupiter way larger? Like a human probably couldn't stand up for long without destroying their body.
>>7649704
Will the ramjet survive on the planet without being destroyed?
>>7648131
>pluto
>>7650153
>implying pluto isnt a planet because its small
A dwarf planet is still a planet.
The size of the object isn't relevant to its classification as a planet as long as it has hydrostatic equilibrium.
>>7647987
nothing is impossible as long as the technology exists.
Right now currently however, I'd say Mars is our limit
>>7648466
Yes it is.
