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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWikitravel has great advice for travel to just about anywhere - including Jupiter!!!
http://wikitravel.org/en/JupiterIf you need to land, do so on one of the 60+ moons. Io is mostly volcanic and an eruption may occur suddenly. Europa may have signs of life, so try not to contaminate it with your ship. Ganymede is larger than Mercury and produces its own (weak) magnetic field. Callisto is a rocky, dead world. If you plan to explore the atmosphere, try not to go too deep lest you want your plane crushed. Also avoid high winds, especially hurricanes.
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Wikitravel has great advice for travel to just about anywhere - including Jupiter!!! (Original Post)
LynneSin
May 2014
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jakeXT
(10,575 posts)1. They have Mordor, but Middle Earth has been deleted
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)2. Jupiter sucks this time of year
Neptune is nicer....Uranus on the other hand....
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)3. 42 years of 'night' and 42 years of 'day'
One of the most bizarre aspects of Uranus is its axial tilt. While the Earth has a tilt of 23.5 degrees, the tilt of Uranus is 99 degrees. What this means is that the planet is completely tilted over on its side. This has a dramatic effect on the planets seasons. The north pole of Uranus experiences 42 years in darkness, pointed away from the Sun, and then it experiences 42 years of sunlight, where the Sun never goes down. One at the equator does one ever experience anything like what we have on Earth, with regular day night cycles.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/19095/how-long-is-a-year-on-uranus/