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  1. What would you find at the centre of a gas giant? | Science Questions

    Aug 29, 2025 · But what would Cassini have seen as it plummeted into the gas giant? The outer layers of Jupiter and Saturn are made of a gas called hydrogen. As you go deeper, the pressure increases …

  2. Can I land on gassy planets like Jupiter? | Podcasts

    Jun 1, 2015 · Some made of rock like, earth others of ice like Pluto and others made of gas like Jupiter. But what would happen if I were to travel past Mars, weave through the asteroid belt, and try to land …

  3. What's at the centre of a gas giant? | Science Questions

    May 15, 2018 · Matt - A gas giant is a big gassy planet. If you think of something like Jupiter or Saturn, so instead of what we call the terrestrial or rocky planets like Earth, they’re much bigger and they're …

  4. Could I land on a gassy planet like Jupiter? | Science Questions

    Jun 2, 2015 · Some made of rock like, earth others of ice like Pluto and others made of gas like Jupiter. But what would happen if I were to travel past Mars, weave through the asteroid belt, and try to land …

  5. Is Jupiter made entirely from gas? | Science Questions

    Jun 13, 2017 · Jupiter is referred to as a gas giant, does this mean it is gas all the whole way through, and you could fly through it?

  6. Is the gas in gas giants highly compressed? | Science Questions

    Nov 18, 2012 · Question Hi Naked Scientists, I was just wondering - if planets like Jupiter are just gas giants, why is it they exert such enormous gravitational pull on surrounding matter, like the asteroid …

  7. Does The Sun and The Gas Giants Have Seasons

    Planets do not have seasons - the hemispheres on a planet have seasons (i.e. that which is summer in the north, is winter in the south, but the whole planet never has a total season). There is one slight …

  8. Photographing the gas giants | Interviews

    Jul 18, 2016 · Photographing the gas giants with astrophographer Roger Hutchinson...

  9. Pig lung transplant, and the origins of dark energy | Podcasts

    Aug 29, 2025 · James - What a beautiful image. So Maddy, although we call them the gas giants, in fact Jupiter and Saturn are also composed of liquid and even solid hydrogen because of the hotter, more …

  10. Why doesn't space suck away our atmosphere? - The Naked Scientists

    Mar 12, 2019 · Nigel's question is out of this world. Chris Smith asked physicist Adam Murphy to explain why space doesn't suck away our oceans and atmosphere...