I know this was written before the Voyager missions revealed Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to be gas giants without any sort of solid surface, but I’d like to know whether the author was aware of Uranus’s size. Did its explorers have to compensate in some way for much greater gravity?
I can’t for the life of me remember the title or author, but I know I read a science fiction short story that was published at roughly the same time about an accomplished astronaut’s attempt to land on Jupiter. It was difficult because, even compared to the other giants, which he’d landed on, Jupiter was so big.
