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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 5621592" data-attributes="member: 13107">Some numbers ...Note: Piecing together a pressure/temperature profile for Jupiter took a bit of searching, and the results and terminology seemed to differ enough that I have only a small confidence in this one link:From <a href="http://www.solarviews.com/eng/jupiter.htm" target="_blank">Jupiter</a>And from: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(pressure)#1GPa" target="_blank">Orders of magnitude (pressure) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>With:1kPa == 1x10^3 Pa1MPa == 1x10^6 Pa1GPa == 1x10^9 PAIf the vessel can withstand 100x the pressure at the depth of the Mariana Trench, that would be 100 * 100 MPa == 10 * 1000 MPa = 10 GPaThen also:At 10,000 kilometers below Jupiter's cloud top liquid hydrogen reaches a pressure of 1,000,000 bar with a temperature of 6,000° K.1x10^6 bar * 100 kPa / bar == 1x10^11 Pa == 10 x 10 x 10^9 Pa == 10 x 10 GPaThat would get you what seems to be a smallish percentage (10%, say 1000 km?) into the atmosphere.  (Both density and temperature change with depth, so I don't think that would be 10%, but I can't say what the correct % would be.)All very rough.Also, to say, temperature might be just as big of a problem as pressure and gravity ...Thx!Tom Bitonti</blockquote>