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bigfoot3000 | 22:14 Mon 21st Jun 2010 | Science
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Which planet in our solar system has the angriest, most turbulent Atmosphere and would be the one to give the most problems if we ever land there?
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Well, if we were to land on any celestial body (other than the Earth) unprotected we'd die instantly, so there's an argument for replying "all of them"...

However, Venus is pretty violent...
I thought it was Saturn, the one with the rings?
yeah, I would agree re Venus.
Mercury isn't very hospitable:
"This slow rate, combined with mercury's nearness to the sun, causes a daytime temperature of more than 400 °C. In the nightime, heat radiates away quickly and the temperature may be as low as -200 °C"
Jupiter must compare with Venus, the red spot is like a giant hurricane that's been going for hundreds of years and is larger that our whole planet.
The gas giants are all pretty violent, Jupiter in particulat for the fiece electromagnetic radiation there.

However none have a solid surface in the sense that the rocky planets do so you can't actually "land" there.

The Russians did land spacecraft on Venus Venera 8 survived 50 minutes - there were several others I think 2 hours is about the record

Photos aren't brilliant either
http://www.planetary....enera_14_panorama.jpg

If we can expand to moons Io would be a handfull - continuously stretched and squeezed by Jupiter it is just a mass of volcanoes

http://nssdcftp.gsfc....ter/gal_io2_47971.jpg
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Other than the slight problem of not being able to land (well other than maybe on the ice core) Neptune wouldn't be a nice place to visit with its 1000mph+ winds!
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Thanks for your answers everyone, there was a programthe other night called "pioneer" something ( Sorry I cant recall) And they said that eventually they would like to float a spacestation balloon in venus's Atmosphere ( I think 40km up or so) where the weather and pressure isn't too bad. Interesting program!

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