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    Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun. It was discovered in 1846 and is often called the "Blue Giant" due to its blue appearance. Neptune has a gaseous atmosphere composed primarily of hydrogen and helium with traces of methane. It has a layered interior consisting of an icy mantle surrounding a dense, rocky core. Neptune has 14 known moons and a faint ring system. The planet has extreme winds and storms, including the famous Great Dark Spot. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune, providing the first close-up images of the planet and its moons in 1989.

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    Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun. It was discovered in 1846 and is often called the "Blue Giant" due to its blue appearance. Neptune has a gaseous atmosphere composed primarily of hydrogen and helium with traces of methane. It has a layered interior consisting of an icy mantle surrounding a dense, rocky core. Neptune has 14 known moons and a faint ring system. The planet has extreme winds and storms, including the famous Great Dark Spot. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune, providing the first close-up images of the planet and its moons in 1989.

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    Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun. It was discovered in 1846 and is often called the "Blue Giant" due to its blue appearance. Neptune has a gaseous atmosphere composed primarily of hydrogen and helium with traces of methane. It has a layered interior consisting of an icy mantle surrounding a dense, rocky core. Neptune has 14 known moons and a faint ring system. The planet has extreme winds and storms, including the famous Great Dark Spot. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune, providing the first close-up images of the planet and its moons in 1989.

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    Neptune

    I.
    Neptune is also called as the “Blue Giant” and the eighth planet
    from the Sun making it the most distant in the solar system. Neptune
    was discovered by Jean Joseph Le Verrier. The planet was not
    known to ancient civilizations because it is not visible to the naked eye.
    The planet was initially called Le Verrier after its discoverer. This name,
    however, quickly was abandoned and the name Neptune was chosen
    instead. Uranus and Neptune are called the sister planet or twins.

    II.

     Layers of the Neptune


     Facts about Neptune which includes:
    a. Temperature
    b. Brightness
    c. Density
    d. Composition
    e. Location
    f. Climate
    g. The Great Dark Spot
    h. Ring System
    i. Neptune’s Moons
    j. Voyager
    k. Neptune’s Symbol

    III.
    Layers of Neptune
    Neptune is a gas giant and does not have
    the same sort of surface that our planet
    has. Neptune consists of different layers.
    The atmosphere consists of hydrogen,
    helium and methane gases.
    The mantle contains water, ammonia and methane ices.
    The core contains rock and ice

    Facts about Neptune:

     Ever since the disqualification of Pluto as a planet, Neptune is


    considered the coldest planet with average surface temperature of
    -214°C – approximately -353°F.
     It is the 8th planet to be the brightest.
     The density of Neptune is 1.638 g/cm3.It is the densest giant planet.
     The atmosphere of Neptune is made of hydrogen and helium, with
    some methane that absorbs red light, which makes the planet appear
    a lovely blue. High, thin clouds drift in the upper atmosphere.
     Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in
    the Solar System. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet
    by diameter, the third-most-massive planet Neptune is 17 times the
    mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus,
    which is 15 times the mass of Earth and slightly larger than Neptune.
     Neptune has a very active climate. Large storms whirl through its
    upper atmosphere, and high-speed winds track around the planet at up
    600 meters per second. One of the largest storms ever seen was
    recorded in 1989.
    It was called the Great Dark Spot. It lasted about five
    years.It is a depression in the atmosphere surrounded by
    high cirrus clouds. Neptune's Great Dark Spot does not
    appear to be stable, though. A few years after the
    Voyagers found it, it had disappeared (Hubble Space
    Telescope pictures at the right)
     Like the other outer planets, Neptune possesses a ring system,
    though its rings are very faint. Neptune has a very thin collection of
    rings that are likely made up of ice particles mixed with dust grains and
    possibly coated with a carbon-based substance.
     Neptune has 14 moons.
    The most interesting moon is Triton,
    a frozen world that is spewing nitrogen ice and dust
    particles out from below its surface. It was likely
    captured by the gravitational pull of Neptune. It
    is probably the coldest world in the solar system.

     Only one spacecraft, the Voyager 2, has flown past Neptune.


    It happened in 1989 and captured the first close-up images of the
    Neptunian system. It took 246 minutes – four hours and six minutes –
    for signals from Voyager 2 to reach back to Earth.

     Neptune’s Symbol

    In Roman mythology Neptune (Greek: Poseidon) was the god of the


    Sea. The trident is most commonly associated with Neptune the god
    of the oceans and seas. It is used in a stylised form to represent the
    planet Neptune.

    Reference
    The Planets 2010 - 2018 “NEPTUNE FACTS” https://theplanets.org/neptune/
    “Neptune’s Symbol” http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_Neptune's_symbol
    Fraser Cain “Density of Neptune”
    https://www.universetoday.com/21618/density-of-neptune/
    Space Facts 2018 “Neptune” https://space-facts.com/neptune/

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