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
The easiest way to think of it is probably like imagine the entire planet as water. You cant land because you would sink. At some point of sinking the presure gets so high that anything we can build would be crushed so you cant go through them. So they are very much tangible like water is tangible other than the very outer layers that is like air.
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