“Jupiter: The Giant Planet” from “The Universe” series on The History Channel is available for viewing here.
The program envisions a warm hydrogen balloon descending into the permanent “hurricane” on Jupiter called The Red Spot. A balloon filled with helium would sink. The film simulates what the orange-brown storm clouds inside the Red Spot would actually look like.
The other really interesting part of the program simulates an unmanned submarine (probably nuclear powered) inside the under-ice ocean on Europa, and suggests that microbial life in this ocean is very likely.
The show also examines the magnetosphere of Jupiter.
What would have been interesting would have been a simulation of what the liquid hydrogen "ocean" on Jupiter would look like, followed by a depiction of the "metallic hydrogen" layer. We need a Jules Verne style "Journal to the Center of Jupiter".
Attribution link for NASA picture of the Great Red Spot, here.
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