Jupiter's upper atmosphere (the part we would see before we died) has three main layers-an upper layer of haze and ammonia clouds, similar to cirrostratus clouds on Earth. Here's a rough sketch of what you'd see as you descended through the clouds for more, definitely check out his book. He was also kind enough to answer some of my questions about Jupiter. For example, you know the Great Red Spot? We don't know what all that red stuff is.Īuthor Michael Carroll has done a lot of thinking about planetary atmospheres, and his book Drifting on Alien Winds vividly describes of what it would be like to descend through Jupiter's clouds. Trying to figure out what Jupiter's clouds would look like from those pictures is like using this to reconstruct these.īy combining the pictures with other science data, we've been able to put together a pretty good idea of what Jupiter's atmosphere is like, but there are some pretty big questions still unanswered which make it hard to be too confident about what it would actually look like. At those resolutions, a huge Earth thunderstorm would appear as roughly one pixel. The best pictures we have of Jupiter's atmosphere are probably these carefully processed mosaics of the Great Red Spot, but they're still taken from very far away. If our submarine survived, what would we see? I mean, submarines don't usually have a lot of windows, but we at least have a periscope, right? We could, I guess, try to do the same thing with a submarine-by mounting a giant heat shield on the front-but it would probably qualify as the most Kerbal vehicle ever built. The probe only sent back about half a megabyte of data to the Galileo orbiter, and had no camera, so we don't know what it saw. The Galileo probe survived by being a bullet with a big heat shield, and several inches of the shield were burned away before it finished slowing down and started falling vertically by parachute. Only the Galileo probe has survived a Jupiter atmospheric entry. There's no easy way to shed that speed other than slamming into the atmosphere and letting it slow you down, but the entry is about four times faster than the Space Shuttle or Apollo Earth reentries. Jupiter has a deep gravity well after falling down toward it from space, you're going very fast. If you took a submarine to Jupiter, it would burn up. One had no cameras, and one went in at night (and was being disposed of, so wasn't taking pictures anyway). We don't know! We've only flown spacecraft into a gas planet's atmosphere twice (both Jupiter). If you did fall into Jupiter's atmosphere in a submarine, what would it actually look like? What would you see before you melted or burned up? After adding it to the craft the subassembly should be checked if they are properly connected and the procedure was done correctly.What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions comes out 9/13. The subassembly appears in the tab once a new root part is added.Move the craft file from into the subassemblies directory: root directory/saves//Ships//.craft into root directory/saves//Subassemblies/ folder.Be aware not to overwrite the complete craft with the payload if that should be preserved. Instead, rename and save it as another normal craft file. Select a decoupler as the root part and put the rest of the launcher below the decoupler.The camera should change orientation and will not be able to be moved around due to lack of the root part. Then delete the section (payload) that should not be included in the subassembly. Save the entire craft, then move away the part to be saved as the subassembly.This workaround works if the subassembly to be created is a launcher without the payload (everything below the decoupler that connects the launcher to the payload), and the root part is part of payload: Temstar, a KSP forum member, proposed a workaround for this and dubbed the subassemblies made this way 'perfect subassemblies'. It causes problems especially with asparagus staged rockets or large rockets which need extensive strutting. Subassemblies were introduced in KSP version 0.22.Ī bug where fuel lines and struts are not able to connect properly when saved as a subassembly and loaded later has been found. All subassemblies are shared between both buildings but not between save games. A subassembly can't be used as the first part. They are a great way to reduce construction and design time, by giving the ability to save complex blocks of parts, like big liquid-booster-stages with separately disposable tanks.Ī root node of a subassembly needs at least one empty stacked attachment node, where the subassembly can be attached to later rockets. The player can design these in the Vehicle Assembly Building or Space Plane Hangar. A subassembly is a pre-designed set of parts.

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