HOw will life on the planet jupiter like?
Jupiter is a gas giant and it doesn’t have a real surface. Living on Jupiter would involve finding a way to stay alive in a hot air balloon that never lands. Edwin Salpeter and Carl Sagan speculated on the organisms that might possibly live in Jupiter’s atmosphere. You can see an artist’s impression here: http://www.astrosafor.net/Huygens/2004/4… More images appear in Carl Sagan’s book and documentary Cosmos; these, including the painting at the link above, were painted by Adolf Schaller. You might like that book, I suggest you seek it out. Sagan and Salpeter imagined “floaters,” giant, balloon-like creatures, filled with hot hydrogen, as this would be the only gas light enough to keep them afloat. These might be enormous, the size of cities. They also imaged predators called hunters, which were fast and maneuverable, preying on the floaters for organic materials and hydrogen. These were self-propelled, lik
