Bright Sword starts with the grenade flat.

Chapter 360: Jupiter's Atmosphere
So Liu Xiu thought of this and said:

"Let's use the Explorer spacecraft! Use the Explorer spacecraft to carry a large-yield missile and approach the bottom of the hydrogen-oxygen mixture from its non-mixing area, and then drop the missile!"

After Liu Qi heard Liu Xiu's words, he immediately said:

"Okay! Then I'll go prepare the bombs now and use them to ignite Jupiter!"

However, Liu Qi's request to ignite Jupiter was interrupted by Liu Xiu:

"No! I'll go!"

As expected, Liu Xiu's words surprised everyone. Hao Xiaoxi even said:

"You are the captain, how can you go!"

Following Hao Xiaoxi's words, more people in the command group volunteered to carry out the dangerous task of igniting Jupiter.

Liu Xiu said:

"Alright! Stop arguing, this matter has been settled. I don't have many years left to live. It's time to hand over Blue Star to the next generation to lead it forward!"

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Eventually, the people in charge of the team succumbed to the pressure from the captain Liu Xiu, who was able to pilot the Explorer, a converted alien unmanned spacecraft, to carry out the mission of igniting Jupiter.

The alien unmanned spacecraft is worthy of being an alien unmanned spacecraft. It is far ahead of space fighters in terms of flying speed and other aspects.

Even facing the extremely strong atmospheric pressure of Jupiter, the hull of the alien unmanned spacecraft remained extremely strong.

There is no way. If the fuselage structure is not strong, it will be crushed by Jupiter's atmosphere before it even penetrates into Jupiter's atmosphere.

Since Jupiter is a gas planet, it does not have a clear solid or liquid surface like the Earth. Therefore, in order to easily determine the surface of Jupiter, scientists take the point where the atmospheric pressure of Jupiter is one bar as the surface of Jupiter.

The pressure of one bar is approximately equal to the quasi-atmospheric pressure of a blue planet. After all, the atmospheric pressure at the sea level of a blue planet, that is, the surface of the blue planet, is one bar.

However, about 90 kilometers below the surface of Jupiter, the atmospheric pressure increases tenfold. This is basically the bottom of the troposphere of Jupiter's atmosphere. The bottom of the troposphere is the bottom of Jupiter's atmosphere. From here, the thickness of Jupiter's atmosphere is about 5,000 kilometers.

A thickness of 5,000 kilometers is larger than the diameter of Mercury.

A thick atmosphere naturally has its advantages. For example, although the atmosphere on the Blue Planet is not as thick as that on Jupiter, it has blocked many meteorites. Small meteorites are burned up before they fall to the surface.

Although Jupiter's atmosphere lacks oxygen to help it burn, its thick atmosphere and extremely strong gravity can naturally melt the incoming meteorites.

The earliest Jupiter probe launched was the Galileo probe launched by Milton in 1989, which launched an atmospheric probe to Jupiter.

The total weight of the probe is 345 kilograms, of which the heat shield weighs 220 kilograms. After entering Jupiter's atmosphere, the probe was subjected to an acceleration of 400G, a surface pressure of 14 atmospheres, and a surface temperature of more than 780 degrees.

However, despite all the protection, it lasted only one hour in Jupiter's atmosphere before being crushed by Jupiter's atmospheric pressure. This shows how terrible Jupiter's atmospheric pressure is!
Under the atmosphere of Jupiter, there is naturally a liquid hydrogen ocean on Jupiter. At this time, the hydrogen element has begun to change from hydrogen gas to liquid due to pressure. But this is not the end, because from here, about 8,000 kilometers deep into Jupiter, which is about two Mercury diameters, the hydrogen ocean on Jupiter is compressed into metallic hydrogen. Here is still about 44,000 kilometers away from the core of Jupiter, or about 3.5 blue planet diameters.

In fact, theoretically speaking, the oxygen from the blue star absorbed by Jupiter may not need to be ignited, because the density of oxygen is heavier than that of hydrogen after all.

As the oxygen continues to sink, its temperature will naturally become higher and higher. As long as the atmospheric temperature is higher than 570 degrees and its mixing ratio is greater than 4% and less than 75%, it will naturally ignite and explode.

However, the oxygen on the Blue Planet cannot be compared with that on the detector. Therefore, although the density of oxygen is much greater than that of hydrogen, the speed of the lower layer is still very slow. Perhaps by the time the Blue Planet has reached the Roche limit or even disintegrated, the oxygen in the atmosphere of Jupiter has still not dropped to the temperature for a natural explosion.

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At this time, there were only two elderly people over 140 years old on the Explorer spacecraft: Liu Xiu and Qin Huairu.

That's right, because of the danger of this mission. After all, if the hydrogen-oxygen mixture on Jupiter explodes prematurely, then even if it is an alien spacecraft, it is estimated that it will be destroyed.

So when Liu Xiu proposed to carry out this task personally, he also took Qin Huairu with him.

At this time, Liu Xiu was driving the Explorer spacecraft while asking Qin Huairu who was accompanying him:

"Huai Ru, what's up? Do you regret coming with me? According to your condition, you should still have another five or six years to live!"

However, facing such a dangerous task, Qin Huairu smiled and said:
"Even if I can live another five or six years, what's the use? Life has to be meaningful to live! You can't just live for the sake of living!"

Qin Huairu paused for a moment and continued:

"Besides, I believe that Brother Xiu will never complete a task that he is not sure of!"

Liu Xiu was satisfied to see that Qin Huairu had no complaints, so he began to concentrate on driving the Explorer spacecraft to approach the hydrogen and oxygen mixture area from the side.

As the gas composition detection device on the spacecraft detected Jupiter's atmospheric data in real time, showing that the hydrogen content ratio of Jupiter's atmosphere was decreasing, Liu Xiu already knew that they were approaching the hydrogen-oxygen mixing zone.

However, when the hydrogen content in Jupiter's atmosphere fell below 80 percent, Liu Xiu stopped controlling the spacecraft to move forward.

Instead, he began to control the spacecraft to descend. Then, when Liu Xiu saw the hydrogen and oxygen content rising, he already knew that his spacecraft had reached the bottom of the hydrogen and oxygen mixture.

So he continued to carefully approach the place with the lowest hydrogen concentration for a distance until the gas detector issued a warning that the hydrogen content in Jupiter's atmosphere was less than 77%. Then Liu Xiu stopped moving forward and quickly pressed the button to throw out a Big Ivan loaded in the spacecraft.

After throwing Big Ivan out, Liu Xiu quickly turned the direction of the spacecraft and began to accelerate towards the thick hydrogen gas and the outer edge of Jupiter.

There is no way. Although Jupiter's atmosphere is thick, Jupiter's gravity is also extremely strong. So even though the Big Ivan had opened its parachute after being thrown out, it was still descending rapidly.

Therefore, in order to prevent it from penetrating too deep into Jupiter and leaving the range of the hydrogen-oxygen mixed gas, the detonation time was set at only fifteen minutes.

(End of this chapter)