StarGaze released a new video showing what it would be like for a human to fall through Uranus, a gaseous cyan-colored ice giant with the lowest minimum temperature of 49 K (−224 °C; −371 °F) out of all the Solar System’s planets.
On Earth, scientists have already begun simulating a probe descent into Uranus using the hypersonic plasma T6 Stalker Tunnel at Oxford University and the University of Stuttgart’s High Enthalpy Flow Diagnostics Group’s plasma wind tunnels. As for humans, we have yet to develop an indestructible spacesuit, which means falling through the planet just isn’t possible…for now.
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To begin designing such a system we need first to adapt current European testing facilities in order to reproduce the atmospheric compositions and velocities involved,” said Louis Walpot, an aerothermodynamics engineer at ESA.
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