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JUPITERATMOSPHERIC DESCENT
W·000°·E

EXPEDITION 005 / THE FALLING PROBE

Descend into
Jupiter.

Ride an imagined probe down through Jupiter's cloud decks — banded haze above, a giant storm to the west, and lightning far below.

No download. Just a little curiosity.

GRAVITY24.79 m/s²JUPITER
ATMOSPHEREH₂ / He
CLOUD TOPabout −110°C
ALTITUDE260 m

SCIENCE-INSPIRED ARTISTIC RECONSTRUCTION · NOT A SCANNED ATMOSPHERE

MZU / EXPEDITION 005

Preparing the Jovian atmosphere…

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THE EXPEDITION FIELD GUIDE

There is no ground here.

This is a small, freely explorable column of atmosphere, not a whole-planet simulation. The five observation points are different views of the same descent; two of them lie deeper and can only be reached by sinking on your own.

Follow the amber guide dots and distance arrow. Drift to a stop and press E or Discover to add it to your journal. Quick travel does not automatically record a discovery.

Moving around

You are a descending probe — there is no surface to stand on. The probe sinks on its own; hold Space to fire the ascent thruster. W A S D or the arrow keys drift sideways; Shift drifts faster. Drag to look. Touchscreens have direction and Burn buttons. H hides notes; P opens photo mode; Esc closes it.

Disable camera drift for a steadier view.
Same probe, different pull. Jupiter’s gravity is 24.79 m/s² — the descent quickens accordingly.
Wind rushing past the hull, radio static, and muffled thunder from storms below. M toggles.

What you are seeing

Science meets imagination

Jupiter has no surface — its hydrogen atmosphere thickens downward until it behaves like a hot metallic ocean. The Galileo probe descended into these clouds in 1995 and transmitted for about an hour. The ammonia cirrus, the great storm vortex, the deeper haze, and the lightning flashes are artistic reconstructions, not survey data.

The probe sinks at a comfortable terminal-velocity drift — real descent profiles are far harsher. Press G to compare sink rates under Earth’s gentler gravity. Wind rush follows your descent rate; the static crackles honour Jupiter’s powerful radio emissions.

Look up through the thinning haze — a Sun five times farther than from Earth is a small fierce disc, about 4% of Earth’s daylight. Click it to learn more.

No external imagery on this page — clouds, the storm, and the sky are generated locally in your browser.

This is an imagined site, not a surveyed descent track or an identified Jovian sample.

IN THE JOVIAN SKY

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