Formation of the Solar System (Pixel Art2) #science #nature #space
13The four inner planets of the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are rocky since they formed close to the sun, where temperatures were high enough to vaporize lighter elements like hydrogen and helium. The only materials available were heavier elements such as iron, silicon, and oxygen, which are the building blocks of rocky planets. The formation of gas giants is impossible in these regions of the solar system.
The outer planets of the solar system past the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, are gas or ice giants because they formed farther away from the sun, where temperatures were low enough for lighter elements to condense and for ice to be more prevalent. These particles then clumped together to form the cores of the gas giants, which eventually accumulated hydrogen and helium gas around their cores
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