Gas giant suit
Gas giant suit posted in Equipment, Cybertech and Weapons forum comment posted by cobalt_phoenix Thinking about this some more, there is potentially a couple of pieces of equipment that could form the basis for exploration craft intended for a gas giant's atmosphere.
Specifically, the basic and advanced dive armors seen in The System Guide to Aegis (page 43). These suits can dive to 2500 and 5000 meters, respectively.
Now, those depths are likely Bluefall specific, and the pressure at depth is based on planetary conditions, but it is also true that anyone who is respected for building such technology always overbuilds them (so the actual crush depth is going to be higher than those listed values, which are likely the maximum operating depths). To make it simple, we can just assume that they used Earth conditions to determine the operating depths, knowing that they could actually go deeper on Bluefall due to the lower gravity.
In Earth's oceans, pressure increases by 1 atmosphere for every 10 meters, roughly. So the basic dive armor should be rated at 250 atmospheres (25,330 kilopascals, 253 bar, or 3,674 psi, roughly) and the advanced dive armor should be rated at 500 atmospheres (50,660 kilopascals, 506 bar, 7,348 psi, roughly).
Looking at
the atmosphere of Jupiter, and, in particular,
this graph (found in
this section), we can roughly estimate where in the atmospheric depth these two dive armors can reach (though
this presentation, specifically the graph on page 17, may give a better idea as to how deep you can get).
To put it simply, you need to go over 100 km into Jupiter's atmosphere before the pressure is 10 times Earth normal. And that is from the 1 bar "standard surface" used to calculate depth in the atmosphere, which is functionally equal to 1 atmosphere of pressure on Earth, so you have about a 1000 km above that point you have to get through first.
In fact, the biggest issue is likely to be the temperature. While it starts off hot, it quickly drops off, but then spikes as you actually get to the 1 bar "standard surface" altitude. So anything going deep is going to be in a significant H5 environment.
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