# What's inside of Jupiter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423 "2006-04-12T19:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/41 "2006-04-14T15:03:06Z")
> [@Doobieous](#): > > I don’t think I’ve seen a post with so many useles “jokes” in it as this one. Do those of you making “jokes” here have anything to contribute? Because I see some good, helpful answers, and a bunch of useless, unhelpful posts which are wasting space. Are you here just to see your names in print? There’s a forum for that, MPSIMS. I thought I was here to learn about what’s inside Jupiter, rather than what you think is funny. Blame it on me, I started it. But I honestly see no harm in injecting a little humor into an otherwise perfectly serious thread. YMMV. I think one of the charms of the Dope is really difficult incomprehensible things broken down for us plebes with a heavy dose of humor and sarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/42 "2006-04-14T15:16:34Z")
You’re pretty clever young man, but it’s Jupiter all the way down. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/43 "2006-04-14T15:21:48Z")
What about the other gas giants? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/44 "2006-04-14T15:47:21Z")
> [@Doobieous](#): > > I don’t think I’ve seen a post with so many useles “jokes” in it as this one. Do those of you making “jokes” here have anything to contribute? Because I see some good, helpful answers, and a bunch of useless, unhelpful posts which are wasting space. Are you here just to see your names in print? There’s a forum for that, MPSIMS. I thought I was here to learn about what’s inside Jupiter, rather than what you think is funny. Well, I may not know what’s inside Jupiter, but I know what’s inside Uranus. A great big stick. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/45 "2006-04-14T16:53:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What about the other gas giants? No, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are NOT inside of Jupiter, they occupy completely different orbits. What do they teach these kids nowadays? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/46 "2006-04-14T17:35:35Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > A better general purpose page would be [the Jupiter page at NinePlanets](http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html), one of the most respected astronomy references on the web: > . Thanks for this very interesting link… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/47 "2006-04-14T18:39:51Z")
> [@](#): > > What about the other gas giants? Starting from the top down, they’re probably similar, but of course, they don’t go as deep. I don’t think that any of the others are hypothesized to reach the metallic hydrogen stage, but the upper parts are much the same. Uranus and Neptune may well have some significant mineral core, though, given that they’re denser than Saturn. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/48 "2006-04-14T18:56:03Z")
Mr. Jupiter. The lucky bastard. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/49 "2006-04-14T19:14:44Z")
> [@](#): > > This exotic form of the most common of elements is possible only at pressures exceeding 4 million bars, as is the case in the interior of Jupiter (and Saturn). Is that more than exists at the bottom of Mariana’s Trench? Because we’ve been to the bottom of Mariana’s Trench, in 1960, for 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/50 "2006-04-14T21:18:58Z")
I know two things that are inside Jupiter. Shoemaker and Levy ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423/51 "2006-04-14T22:11:59Z")
Found this [article](http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1999/1006/diamonds.html) from 1999 discussing the possibility of diamond “hailstones” forming in the atmosphere of Uranus and Neptune. Uranus & Neptune are more likely to have diamonds than Jupiter and Saturn because the concentration of methane is higher (10 to 15 percent versus just “trace” amounts on their bigger neighbors). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-inside-of-jupiter/352423.md?page=2)