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You are on Jupiter and would like to send a probe into space so that it does not fall back to the surface. What minimum launch speed do you need if Jupiter's mass is 1.9 x 10^27?

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Note that in order to calculate the escape velocity one must know the radius of the planet.

The idea here is that the Jupiter's gravitational potential energy at infinity is zero.
If at infinity there will be a non-zero potential energy - there will be a force exerted by Jupiter on the probe and if the spaceship stops moving at ...

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