• Question: If you land on the sun will you fall through it or stay on the surface getting melted? :)

    Asked by issi759 to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 19 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Marina De Vos

      Marina De Vos answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      You would never reach the sun. You would be burned up before you reached the surface.
      On the off chance that you would be able to land, you would not fall through.

    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      It depends on what you mean by the surface of the sun. The sun had an atmosphere like earth. But it is super heated plasma. It gets denser as you get closer but the outer sections are thinner than our atmosphere. As you move closer you it gets denser and denser but not as dense as you might think. The mean density of the sun is lower than earths as earth is rock and the sun is compressed gasses.

      Mariana is right in that you would probably not make to the sun’s surface before melting 😛

      Assuming you are in fact are entirely heat proof. The sun is a ball of matter that gets dense and denser the closer you get to the centre. Like diving in a very very deep pool. The mean density is only slight more dense than water on earth. You could fall quite far assuming nothing else was happening to you. Heat and radiation forces for example. The sun is so bright the light coming off would push you back a little bit.

      Would recommend some sun tan lotion.

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