Random Places In The Solar System Where Your Death Would Be Most Horrific (15 items)

(#9) Io
- Moon
Io, one of Jupiter's moons, is the most vocanically active body in the solar system. What does that mean? Well, it's covered in molten lava, and enormous volcanoes are known to spew jets of searing magma nearly 200 miles high. There's so much lava, in fact, that most of the Io's surface is liquid. It's basically hell floating in space. In addition to the volcanic hellscape, Io boasts lakes of molten sulfur, intense radiation, and massive electric currents. Which makes it sound like a nuclear bomb made out of lava. Although NASA claims the planet looks like a pizza.
(#3) Eviscerated by Flying Ice Shards on Neptune

Neptune is so far from the sun - about 2.8 billion miles - it takes it 165 years to make a single pass around the star. An ice giant, the mammoth planet's atmosphere contains swirling water and shards of ice. Neptune also has wind gusts reaching speeds of 700 miles per hour. At that speed, the wind itself would flay you. The ice in the atmosphere is a nasty little bonus.
(#7) Incinerated and Obliterated by a 4.4 Nonillion Lb Sphere of Flaming Gas
The surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It is, after all, a gargantuan sphere of flaming gas that's about 1.3 million times the size of Earth. If you were to stand on the sun (which you can't, because it's a giant ball of gas, not a solid planet), the searing heat would instantly disintegrate you. Your particles would be scattered by solar winds.
(#1) Venus
- Planet
Venus's thick, tempestuous atmosphere has turned the planet into a scorched wasteland, trapping extreme heat, pressure, and toxic gas. Surface temperatures exceed 880 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt lead, and the air pressure on Venus is 90 times that of Earth. There are also lava plains. So. Venus would crush, suffocate, and incinerate you simultaneously, in probably less than 10 seconds. And that's assuming the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere doesn't destroy you before you get to the planet's surface.
(#15) Destroyed Riding a Comet in a Blaze of Glory
There's no good way to ride a comet. If you're far from the sun, you'll freeze in the lonely vacuum of space. If you're close to the sun, you'll get caught in the flaming gas trail following the comet, and cook like beef jerky under a blow torch. If you enter a planet's atmosphere, you'll die, either from the horrors of the planet itself, or by crashing into the surface. The consolation prize is you get to go out looking like Major Kong riding the bomb in Dr. Strangelove.
(#2) Saturn
- Planet
Saturn sure is beautiful. The rings, the swirling colors, the light breeze. Yes, as it turns out, winds on Saturn gust at about 1,118 miles per hour. So, if you're scared of being crushed by the pressure within this gas giant, don't worry. You'll be ripped to shreds by the wind before you implode.