SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -A gas giant is a large planet mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. These planets, like Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system, don’t have hard surfaces and instead have swirling gases above a solid core.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gas giants are large planets composed mostly of gases, such as hydrogen and helium, with a relatively small rocky core. The gas giants of our solar system-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune-together make up a group known as the Jovian planets, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder (opens in new tab).

Detailed explanation-3: -Uranus is an ice giant (instead of a gas giant). It is mostly made of flowing icy materials above a solid core.

Detailed explanation-4: -Neptune, like Uranus, is an ice giant. It’s similar to a gas giant. It is made of a thick soup of water, ammonia, and methane flowing over a solid core about the size of Earth. Neptune has a thick, windy atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gas Giant. Saturn is a gas-giant planet and therefore does not have a solid surface like Earth’s. But it might have a solid core somewhere in there.

Detailed explanation-6: -The gas giants-Jupiter and Saturn-contain far more gas than rock or ice. Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants because they are smaller and compositionally different from Jupiter and Saturn, the gas giants.

Detailed explanation-7: -As a gas giant, Jupiter doesn’t have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids.