I searched and it says it’s a planet composed of solely gas, like helium or hydrogen, but… it is a planet.
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What’s exactly then? Can you send a space shuttle and land on a gas giant, like Saturn and Jupiter or they are merely intangible and you can actually… go through them?
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If so, we could merely get on their moons, like Europa or Io, but not actually go to those planets.
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How does it exactly work?
In: Planetary Science
Space is generally not just empty but instead made up of all kinds of stuff. Stuff can be small rocks to even smaller things like gasses and chemicals you can’t really see until there’s a lot of them together all at once. You know when you fart? That’s a gas. It isn’t just air, stuff is in that air.
In space, your fart along with everything else around is pulled towards things. Gas giants are essentially a big rock like earth, bigger than earth actually and more dense (imagine two birthday cakes, one is fluffy and the other you can barely put your fork through, that one is more dense and weighs more). And because it is more dense it has more gravity, which is to stay, is has more ability to attract much smaller rocks and stuff, like gasses.
So a gas giant is really just a super dense birthday cake that is surrounded by all of the gasses it has attracted over the years.
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