Can you go inside gas giants?

[unga bunga]

And are they realistic inside?

[shcnik]

You can go inside a gas giant (to some extent). But currently views inside them are not very realistic.
You can always try to enter a gas giant yourself - simply press 'Land' button.

[Manbird]

Originally posted by shcnik:

You can go inside a gas giant (to some extent). But currently views inside them are not very realistic.
You can always try to enter a gas giant yourself - simply press 'Land' button.

We don't know what lies underneath those clouds in reality.

[Gondola]

Originally posted by Manbird:

Originally posted by shcnik:

You can go inside a gas giant (to some extent). But currently views inside them are not very realistic.
You can always try to enter a gas giant yourself - simply press 'Land' button.

We don't know what lies underneath those clouds in reality.

There are some solid theories that are based on what we know about physics though. There would at a minimum, be cloud layers that reach for miles and miles, then supercritical fluids and oceans of helium/hydrogen/oxygen, compressed to liquids state due to the sheer pressure.

[HXL]

you cant say if its realistic or not since nobody has been on a gas giant before

[aewhistory]

To reiterate what others have said, all anyone can do is build what the inside of a gas giant would look like based on theoretical models. These models may prove to be quite accurate, but until probes can be sent into these planets and can survive and send back data that's all we have.

AFAIK, the only man made thing that has ever entered a gas giant was a probe (galileo? or maybe I am thinking of the wrong one.) that was sent crashing into Jupiter so as not to contaminate its moons that might conceivably support life, like Europa. Even in that case I don't think it was possible to get much of any info. back. Anyone else remember this better than I do? I'm clearly weak on recalling the details..... the story of my life.

[Rufus Shinra]

It was Saturn and the Cassini-Huyghens probe after it dropped Huyghens - IIRC - on Titan. Galileo is the EU orbital navigation system.