The first thing I remember seeing is this model of a planet in front of me. It was about the size of a basketball, with a fairly roughly hewn surface. But the thing that really stood out about it was this huge mountain/plateau that stood out on the upper right side of it. It stuck out as far as the radius of the planet itself, and was 5-6 inches wide on this scale model. Whoever it was there with me told me that this was a model of the true surface of Jupiter; if we got rid of all the clouds and thick atmosphere, way down in the middle was this chunk of a planet.
Right after that, I was shown a second "model" of a planet. Most of the surface was much rougher than the Jupiter one, but it didn't have any features that stand out on it. That one was supposed to be the true surface of Saturn. As I looked at both of these, it was almost as if I were flying by them in space looking at them. For Saturn, I was able to see it with it's rings and moons, but without the cloud cover. It was pretty interesting looking. For Jupiter, looking at it, I could see a dark mark on the surface of the planet where the Great Red Spot normally is. I actually looked at that a couple of times. Once it seemed like it was on top of this great plateau, and other times it seemed that it was on the "regular" surface.
I don't know who was talking to me about it, but whoever it was started telling me some very interesting things about Jupiter. They said that Jupiter looked like this at it's core, but scientists didn't know it yet because they hadn't been able to observe it. They also said that while the observable surface (the clouds) of Jupiter was 30 times the size of earth (it's actually about 10 times. I looked it up), this solid core was only about 2 times the size of earth. That didn't count the plateau. They were also telling me that the cloud cover was very thick and dense up in the higher atmosphere, but down lower, the closer it got to this core, the nicer and more earth-like it got. They were mentioning that even though the clouds absorbed so much of the heat from the sun, the planet was able to keep warm due to the clouds holding in heat, as well as the planet generating it's own heat. From this, I started thinking that perhaps it was possible for Jupiter to sustain life.
Soon after this, the next thing that I know is that I'm flying to the surface of Jupiter, but I don't think that I'm in any sort of craft. I'm just flying on my own. I come down next to the big plateau, down in this canyon. I start walking out in the direction I'm facing, with the plateau on my right, and I come out of the canyon, and in front of me, I'm seeing this huge machine-like city all around. It's built into the plateau, and into the ground.
Suddenly I'm with someone else who's in some sort of space suit. (I don't think I'm wearing one, though) I believe that there is also a third person, but the more I think about it, I wasn't really with these two guys. I was just standing around watching, but they couldn't see me. They were in this buggy thing, and they were trying to get into this big metal tunnel, but for some reason they weren't supposed to go in there. There were a number of "roads" that ended in ramps, and they were trying to jump their buggy from the ramp to the tunnel.
It seems that at first they were not getting enough speed, and their buggy didn't even make it to the top of the ramp, even though the ramps weren't very big. I think that they finally got a running start and got their buggy across. When they did, we all went down inside the tunnel into this underground city/complex. It had a very sci-fi military feel to it.
I wasn't down there for very long, and I was observing some of the people, also in these similar space suits, trying to get something done or prevent something from being done. I think that they may have been trying to keep those first two guys out for some reason, but they didn't know that they had already made it into the complex. It seems that one or two of them kept goofing off (there was only a group of five or six), and one of them was smoking a cigarette. (!) The last thing that I remember is these guys finally going out to the surface, and me going along with them. I took another look around at all the stuff outside, and then soon after that, the dream was over.
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