Ship repair after gas giant dive

[SSWarlock]

Let's not forget the effects of radiation. Gas giants (especially Jupiter) suck solar radiation into their magnetic fields in pretty horrific amounts.

http://www.space.com/33331-juno-probe-jupiter-radiation-environment.html

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

Let's not forget the effects of radiation. Gas giants (especially Jupiter) suck solar radiation into their magnetic fields in pretty horrific amounts.

http://www.space.com/33331-juno-probe-jupiter-radiation-environment.html

radiation is trapped by magnetic fields in a vacuum, not within the atmosphere. The atmosphere stops charged particles which are the radiation your talking about, it does not affect photons. If you are in the atmosphere or close above it, there is not much radiation, when you go higher and the vacuum becomes purer, then you encounter lethal radiation.

 

[Reynard]

"In Uranus and Neptune, however, the pressures are much lower, not great enough to produce liquid metallic hydrogen. On these two planets, vast oceans of liquid molecular ammonia, methane, and hydrogen extend from the base of the atmosphere down to the ice/rock core. These oceans are at very high pressure, and they reach temperatures of several thousand Kelvin"

So you really won't have ships going very deep on even the smaller gas giants let alone walk around facing life forms swimming in the VERY hot soup. Atmospheric storms of ultra thick air that could knock the Earth around would tear a ship apart before it's crushed and cooked deeper down. Heavily armored ships would last LONGER but would still succumb. Traveller adventures will always be in the relative wispy tops of a giant's clouds thick enough to scoop but thin enough to navigate. Even SDBs aren't down too much deeper. What they rely on is armor and very good sensor packages hoping they will see enemy ships before they're seen then boost out with maneuver thrust larger ships can't match. Piranha after whales.