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Why do planets like Jupiter and Saturn have large gas atmospheres while Mercury and Mars do not?

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Because Jupiter and Saturn have more mass


Because of each planets distance from the Sun


Because of their different orbits around the Sun


Because they were formed at different times

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The solar system shows the planets in their orbits around the sun in this order: Mercury, Venus, Earth with Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Fixed stars are around the outside of the orbit of Saturn.

Step-by-step explanation:

Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center. So I had to choose the choice that was most similar to that.

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