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
Think of it kind of like earth, you have the core, the mantle, the crust, and then the atmosphere. Gas giants are similar, but their atmosphere is way way thicker then earth. Theoretically if you had an infinitely strong space ship, you could land on a gas giant. You would have to go extremely deep into the planet to reach the solid ground though, because the atmosphere is thicker then the actual crust or mantle. And the reason your ship would need to be infinitely strong is because the atmosphere is so thick that it acts similar to water, where the deeper you go the more pressure builds up. If you go too deep you will end up getting crushed by the pressure.
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