Planets violent Atmospheres

[bigfoot3000]

Which planet in our solar system has the angriest, most turbulent Atmosphere and would be the one to give the most problems if we ever land there?

[MarkRae]

Well, if we were to land on any celestial body (other than the Earth) unprotected we'd die instantly, so there's an argument for replying "all of them"...

However, Venus is pretty violent...

[boxtops]

I thought it was Saturn, the one with the rings?

[LazyGun]

yeah, I would agree re Venus.

[Count-A-Strong]

Mercury isn't very hospitable:
"This slow rate, combined with mercury's nearness to the sun, causes a daytime temperature of more than 400 °C. In the nightime, heat radiates away quickly and the temperature may be as low as -200 °C"

[BillyBB]

Jupiter must compare with Venus, the red spot is like a giant hurricane that's been going for hundreds of years and is larger that our whole planet.

[jake-the-peg]

The gas giants are all pretty violent, Jupiter in particulat for the fiece electromagnetic radiation there.

However none have a solid surface in the sense that the rocky planets do so you can't actually "land" there.

The Russians did land spacecraft on Venus Venera 8 survived 50 minutes - there were several others I think 2 hours is about the record

Photos aren't brilliant either
http://www.planetary....enera_14_panorama.jpg

If we can expand to moons Io would be a handfull - continuously stretched and squeezed by Jupiter it is just a mass of volcanoes

http://nssdcftp.gsfc....ter/gal_io2_47971.jpg

[ChuckFickens]

Other than the slight problem of not being able to land (well other than maybe on the ice core) Neptune wouldn't be a nice place to visit with its 1000mph+ winds!

[bigfoot3000]

Thanks for your answers everyone, there was a programthe other night called "pioneer" something ( Sorry I cant recall) And they said that eventually they would like to float a spacestation balloon in venus's Atmosphere ( I think 40km up or so) where the weather and pressure isn't too bad. Interesting program!