There's no mystery: the giants are bigger, more massive and have stronger gravitational fields. They also all have rings, though only Saturn's is readily visible from the Earth.
Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn do not have gas moons in the same way that they have gas atmospheres. Moons are typically rocky or icy bodies that orbit planets, and they are not composed primarily of gases like the planets themselves. So while gas giants have many diverse moons, none are composed entirely of gas.
Gas planets have mor planets then rocky planets because rocky planets are like earth. Gas planets are just difrent in there own way. If im wrong tell me but im pretty sure that's why. they are larger so the gravity captures more satalites
The rocky inner planets are much smaller. That's why the giants are called giants.
Mercury and Venus are terrestrial planets, and they are the only major planets without moons.
Rocky planets are denser than gas giants.
Terrestrial planets are rocky, have solid surfaces, and are located closer to the sun compared to gas giants. They have thin or no atmospheres, lack rings, and have fewer moons compared to gas giants. Additionally, terrestrial planets are composed of metals and silicate rocks.
Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants, not rocky planets. They are primarily made up of gases like hydrogen and helium and do not have a solid surface like rocky planets such as Earth.
No, indeed. All of the planets farther out than Mars are gas giants. They are much, much larger than Earth, for instance, and are composed of various gases. There may be a rocky center core in the gas giants, but not on the surface. The moons of most of the gas giants are rocky . . . some have volcanoes - some are covered with ice.
The five major differences between the gas giant planets and the rocky planets are as follows: 1. Gas giants are larger, both in diameter and in mass. 2. Gas giants have a much larger proportion of hydrogen and other light weight elements. Rocky planets have more rock. 3. Gas giants are farther away from the sun. 4. Gas giants are much colder. 5. Gas giants are made mostly (in some cases, perhaps entirely) of gas, while rocky planets are mostly solid with comparatively little gas. Edit: Here's another, if you want 6 differences: The Gas Giants have extensive systems of moons (and they have rings too).
The inner planets are rocky and the outer planets are gas giants.
All four rocky planets are much smaller than gas planets.
The inner planets are small rocky bodies, whereas the outer planets are gas giants, large balls of gas with ring systems and a large quantity of Moons.