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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Tue May 27, 2014, 03:25 PM May 2014

Wikitravel has great advice for travel to just about anywhere - including Jupiter!!!

http://wikitravel.org/en/Jupiter

If 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 OP
They have Mordor, but Middle Earth has been deleted jakeXT May 2014 #1
Jupiter sucks this time of year ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2014 #2
42 years of 'night' and 42 years of 'day' jakeXT May 2014 #3

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
3. 42 years of 'night' and 42 years of 'day'
Tue May 27, 2014, 06:10 PM
May 2014

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 planet’s 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/

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