QUESTION:
Is Jupiter's atmosphere something like thick soup? You stick your finger
into it then pull it out and it takes a while for it to fill the
indentation back up.   How long will it take Jupiter's atmosphere to refill
the hole the probe makes?

ANSWER from Nagin Cox on Feb. 6,1996:
Jupiter's atmosphere is gaseous so any object that penetrates it does not
really make a hole. Think of a bullet going through the air - the air fills
in the "hole" made by the bullet instantaneously. Similarly, the Jovian
atmosphere filled in the space the probe passed through very quickly.