Is there any rocky surface on jupiter and saturn?

Question

If they are gaseous bodies, how can they be in a perfect sphere shape like earth?

Answer 1

Just to add to what people have already posted here (except for that idiot who posted "who gives a ****"), the Earth is FAR from a perfect sphere in shape. In actual fact it's more pear shaped, with its widest point just south of the equator. Also, the majority of the planet's mass is in the Sth Hemisphere....something like 51%, maybe slightly less.

Answer 2

Nobody knows for sure but they are thought to have a solid rocky core. To understand the interior of Jupiter and Saturn is currently very hard to determine and is very indirect. This is due to the fact that atmospheric space probes can only go a depth of 150 km below the surface. Jupiter and Saturn probably have a rocky core deep in the planet amounting to around 10 to 15 Earth-masses. This core is surrounded by a large quantity of hydrogen. However, unlike on the surface, this hydrogen is liquid, not gas. This is because at great depths in the planet where pressure exceeds 4 million bars on Jupiter, hydrogen atoms ionize, resulting in elements consisting only of protons. This process converts hydrogen into a metallic state and is then able to conduct electricity and produce magnetic fields. Thus Jupiter has one of the largest magnetospheres in the solar system, extending beyond the scope of Jupiter and into other planets.

Answer 3

There really wouldn't be a "surface" on Jupiter or Saturn as we would call it here on Earth.

If you went to one of these planets and traveled down through the atmosphere you would see something like this: you would travel down through the very thick atmosphere for most of the way, then go through a liquid hydrogen layer, next a metallic hydrogen layer, and finally arrive at a rocky center.

If you could withstand the huge pressures at the surface of the rocky core you could technically stand on it and it would be your surface, but it would be more like standing on the bottom of a really deep ocean.

Also, Jupiter and Saturn are not nearly as perfectly circular as the Earth is. In fact if you look at them through a telescope you can notice that they are significantly wider at their equators than they are pole to pole. This is because they spin so fast on their axis and they are composed of gas.

Answer 4

Atmospheric pressures of the gas giants create liquid metals above the forged cores. build a probe in a position to stand up to the pressures and it does not land on a good floor yet a liquid steel one. maximum folk of the quantity of those planets is gas. hence their class as gas giants. Many scientists confirm the size of a planet no longer via its actual floor yet via the diameter of its atmosphere. this is like asserting the size of Earth starts off on the mesosphere instead of on the crust/oceanic floor. this is the place the confusion arises whilst conversing appropriate to the gas giants. All planets are rather comparable in shape. The gas giants are catagorized via their very super atmospheres yet below the ambience they do have liquid surfaces and inner rock cores. The liquid floor of Jupiter is steel hydrogen. Saturn- includes extra helium than hydrogen yet liquid helium sinks further to the middle than liquid hydrogen so the respond is the comparable as Jupiter. Uranus- liquid water/ammonia mixture Neptune- regarded as liquid hydrogen

Answer 5

Of course not! They are gaseous bodies.

Answer 6

They are mae of gas. they have no rocky surface. have no tangible surface for that matter.

Answer 7

No never ..
it is made just gas's ball..

Answer 8

who gives a ****

Answer 9

no body has been there yet