# Is there a theoretical limit to how deep a solid structure can travel into Jupiter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 6, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-theoretical-limit-to-how-deep-a-solid-structure-can-travel-into-jupiter/948164 "2021-08-06T18:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-theoretical-limit-to-how-deep-a-solid-structure-can-travel-into-jupiter/948164/1 "2021-08-06T18:16:32Z")
I was reading [this](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-would-happen-if-humans-tried-landing-on-jupiter-space-2018-2) article, which seems to suggest that the deepest any man made object can travel into Jupiter is about 430 miles, or about 1% of the distance to it’s center, before it is crushed. Is there a theoretical limit to how far any solid structure in the universe could travel before it is vaporized or liquified? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-theoretical-limit-to-how-deep-a-solid-structure-can-travel-into-jupiter/948164/2 "2021-08-06T18:48:11Z")
according to your article tungsten melts at 6100f and has the highest melting point of any element. they say this happens at 2500 miles down. Fwiw the pressure at the center of jupiter is 650 million psi. that’s about 47 million times more than earth’s surface. ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-theoretical-limit-to-how-deep-a-solid-structure-can-travel-into-jupiter/948164/3 "2021-08-06T21:42:08Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > I was reading [this](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-would-happen-if-humans-tried-landing-on-jupiter-space-2018-2) article, which seems to suggest that the deepest any man made object can travel into Jupiter is about 430 miles,… Keeping in mind that we have only been about 12 km deep into earth (Kola Superdeep Borehole). Earth has a radius of 6400 km, so we have been about 0.2% to the center of earth!!! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-theoretical-limit-to-how-deep-a-solid-structure-can-travel-into-jupiter/948164/4 "2021-08-07T01:13:22Z")
Paging Arthur C. Clarke… ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-theoretical-limit-to-how-deep-a-solid-structure-can-travel-into-jupiter/948164/5 "2021-08-07T03:41:47Z")
Whether diamond or not, Juno probe measurements cast a little doubt on whether Jupiter has a consolidated (solid) > **[A massive collision may have made Jupiter's core so weird](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213521-a-massive-collision-may-have-made-jupiters-core-so-weird/)** > > A few years ago we learned Jupiter’s core is much messier than expected. Now simulations suggest a huge collision with a planetary embryo could explain why > [@](#): > > “Instead of a small compact core as we assumed, Jupiter seems to have a dilute, fuzzy core that extends to almost half of its radius,” says Shang-Fei Liu, from Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, China.