What is exactly… a Gas Giant?

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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?

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How you gonna land on a gas? Gas is a state of matter not a type of matter. Anything can be a gas if it’s hot enough, and anything can be a solid if it’s cold enough.

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