How can a spacecraft land on Jupiter?
Jupiter is a giant gas planet and because of that, there really isn’t a place to land. There is just a whole lot of gas. A spacecraft could have exploded once it entered Jupiter’s atmosphere, but NASA was successful because they designed the spacecraft and its components such that it could take Jupiter’s intense pressure and heat. Galileo had a probe that penetrated Jupiter s atmosphere on December 7, 1995. The probe was able to record information for 59 minutes, almost an hour, before it melted and vaporized because of the heat. You can see how it was designed here: http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/galileo_probe/htmls/probe_spacecraft.html.
