It has to somewhere. It's been swallowing millions of asteroids for billions of years. All that rock and metal is in there...unless it all just completely vaporizes in it's atmosphere and turns into dust that swirls around in the thousand km/hr winds until it's basically atomized.
But what happens when it atomizes, wouldn't the heavy elements eventually, after millions of years, sink to the core? Or would the radiation keep them afloat?
Definitely beyond my knowledge here for sure but I'd have to imagine that at those wind speeds, that atmospheric density and that temperature... atomized heavy elements could easily just stay afloat forever.
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u/CannotDenyNorConfirm Dec 29 '20
TIL Jupiter doesn't really have a surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter