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Gas giants are large planets that the player cannot visit, being described as too dangerous for the player's ship. However, some gas giants have moons that can be visited. Gas giants come in five different colors, and some have rings while others do not. Some gas giants appear to be tilted at an angle.
Types
Gas giants come in five different surface textures. Rings also display different textures.
Notes
- On the list of planets while viewing the star, the moons are listed, but not the gas giant that they orbit.
- Players' home systems have a gas giant, though it does not have a moon.
- Occasionally, a glitch can occur, and the gas giant may be inhabited by an AI empire, and the planet will produce white spice. Inhabited gas giants can be bought, but not captured or entered. As a result, it can be irritating to own a gas giant because a player cannot protect their colonies.
- Gas giants can have all three trail color, including green, despite being uninhabitable. This is because trail color is an indicator of a planet's temperature, not necessarily habitability. Gas giants and their moons always share the same trail color.
- No tools can be used on gas giants.
- Rarely, gas giants can be the only planet in a star system.
Trivia
- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune of the Sol System are gas giants. They have many moons, and the "surface" is mainly gas. The huge mass of these planets makes them attract a lot of matter with gravity, this is what makes the moons. Like in Spore, some of these natural satellites of the gas giants are large enough to support life if terraformed. Two examples of these are Ganymede of Jupiter and Titan of Saturn.
- It is somewhat surprising that the player cannot visit gas giants, even though they can withstand the enormous pressure in a black hole, which would make the pressure in a gas giant seem tiny by comparison.
- If a gas giant has a moon, the player can seemingly visit the giant by going to its moon and zooming out (but not leaving the moon) whilst directly underneath the gas giant. If you go far enough, you will actually go inside the giant.
- Occasionally, Pirates will use their "Fake Artifact" signal on a gas giant, therefore misleading players to attempt to enter, although it is impossible. This is similar to the glitch where Adventure planets signal artifacts.
- If a gas giant has both rings and a moon, the moon may appear to be inside the rings of the gas giant.
- Interestingly, Spore does not feature yellow gas giants like Saturn. In-game, Saturn is inaccurately depicted as red. However, Jupiter (brown), Uranus (azure) and Neptune (azure) are more accurately depicted in terms of color. Though there are no pink gas giants in the Solar System, the exoplanet GJ 504b has been identified as one.
Gallery
Tilted gas giant.
Three similar gas giants.
A blue gas giant as seen from its moon.
A red gas giant as seen from its moon.
A pink gas giant from its moon.
A rare star system with only a gas giant.
A gas giant in the Adventure menu, with a ring texture unseen in the Space Stage.
A gas giant in its glyphic form.
A gas giant appears in the Spore introduction cinematic.
Glitches
Twin Gas Giant
Very rarely, there is a glitch where there are 2 or more identical gas giants. This includes the moons as well, which are identical. This glitch is very rare, and it has only ever been recorded reliably four times.
