• Question: Is it possible for a man made robot to collect pictures inside of Saturn?

    Asked by anon-244744 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 16 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      Definitely! But you might need to define how far ‘inside’ Saturn you want the pictures. The atmosphere gets thicker and thicker the further in you go, so the robotic probe would need to be able to withstand some pretty high pressures if it wanted to survive! It’s also going to get bashed around by massive winds, so taking stable pictures will be challenging too.
      But dipping into the atmosphere and taking pictures is certainly possible.

    • Photo: Ondrej Kovanda

      Ondrej Kovanda answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      It would probably be possible, the question is, it we would see anything but very boring, uniform fog…

    • Photo: Eleanor Jones

      Eleanor Jones answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      I don’t see why not. We would have to devise something that can withstand the harsh environment, but for sure it should be possible!

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