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Liquefied parts of a gas giant's core may have trouble reaching the outer envelope due to double diffusive convection -- a process commonly found in Earth's oceans. When salty water accumulates at the bottom of the ocean, its density keeps it from mixing thoroughly with the upper layers. In a similar fashion, the heavy elements in Jupiter's core may have trouble gaining enough energy to move upward and outward. Scientists don't know how much this hindrance will affect potential mixing inside Jupiter, and many other questions remain to be answered about the melting process. "The next question is, 'How efficient is this process?'" said Fortney. Researchers will have more tools to answer this question once NASA's Juno probe reaches Jupiter in 2016. With the spacecraft's instruments carefully analyzing Jupiter's composition, Wilson believes that there will be signatures of mixing and core erosion. Read more: www.foxnews.com...
The way the article reads it is as if they think the core of Jupiter may be dissolving??
New simulations suggest
More complete NONSENSE from Never A Straight Answer.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by CaptChaos
More complete NONSENSE from Never A Straight Answer.
You realize that:
1) The author of the Fox article, Brian Jacobsmeyer, is not involved with NASA.
2) Neither of the scientists who published the article which the Fox article is about are involved with NASA.
No? You didn't realize that? What a surprise.
prl.aps.org...
brianjacobsmeyer.com...edit on 3/23/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheCorporateBeast
I'm guessing most people in here don't like Nassim Haramein, but I remember one of his conferences where he talked about Jupiter being the same composition as the sun, having 2 permanent "thingies" that where seen as aurora borealis that where increasing it's temperature and speculated about the possibility of Jupiter turning into a star.
I like the idea, don't know if it's actually possible, but on the other hand, anything is possible.
Originally posted by nusnus
Jupiter is a gas giant, it does not have a surface like Earth does, there are theories about it having a core of sorts, so threads about it burning up, melting etc are all just playing around with the fact that it's not a completely solid planet.
Originally posted by MamaJ
I have to ask you though.... If there was a concern with Jupiter or any other planet (even the Sun) would NASA be the first to come out and tell us?