What exactly happens on a gas planet and if they aren’t able to be walked on, then why are they considered “planets”?
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Gas planets are massive. To the point that the physics involved isn’t what people are used to or have an easy idea picturing.
Imagine falling though 1000 miles of air getting thicker and thicker. The air eventually gets thicker and thicker something like fog, and without a distinct point you find yourself in liquid. Except that liquid isn’t water it’s the same gases just squeezed together so much its like water. Fall another 1000 miles and the liquid gets thicker and thicker, at first like honey, then near the end like jello. At which point you stop falling quickly. The ‘ground’ is still jello, something between a liquid and solid.
There are solids deep inside a gas giant but they are so far down and under such a high pressure the ‘surface’ wouldn’t be anything we humans would picture as a ‘surface’.
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