Neptune

Hi this is Bevaan R. and I will share information about Neptune, the 8th planet from the sun. The average temperature on Neptune is a brutally cold -373 degrees F. Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, has the coldest temperature measured in our solar system at -391 degrees F. That is only 68 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than absolute zero, a temperature in which all molecular action stops. Neptune is about 2.8 billion miles from the sun. That's about 30 times farther than the distance from Earth to the sun. Traveling to Neptune would be the worst idea ever, taking 12 years just to get there. Neptune is an ice giant, more famously known as a gas giant. What they found was a planet covered in dense, methane-rich clouds that whipped around Neptune at more than 1,000 miles per hour, making it the windiest spot in the solar system. At the time, the planet was host to the Great Dark Spot, an Earth-sized storm that has since disappeared. The color of Neptune is a bright azure blue. During its flyby in 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 revealed the bright blue color, different from the pale blue color of Uranus.

Is Neptune Made of water?

The ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune are water-rich worlds with deep layers of ice or possibly liquid water beneath their thick atmospheres. Their interior “oceans” are more extensive than the oceans on Earth or the ice deposits and/or subsurface lakes on Mars.

Neptune is the third most massive planet. Like the rest of the gas giants, Neptune has no definite surface layer. Instead, the gas transits into a slushy ice and water layer. The water-ammonia ocean serves as the planet's mantle, and contains more than ten times the mass of Earth. Deep within Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds. The outer planets of our Solar System are hard to study, however. Only a single space mission, Voyager 2, has flown by to reveal some of their secrets, so diamond rain has remained only a hypothesis. Neptune has a hydrogen, helium and methane atmosphere. So, it would be impossible for us to breathe on the planet Neptune, which is another obstacle for humans living there.

Fun Facts

•Neptune is the most distant planet from the Sun

•Neptune is the smallest gas giant

•A year on Neptune lasts 165 years

•Neptune is named after the Roman god of the sea

•Neptune has 6 faint rings

•Neptune's surface gravity is almost Earth-like

•The discovery of Neptune is still a controversy

•Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System

•Neptune is the coldest planet in the Solar System

•Neptune is the last discovered planet in the Solar System

Neptune was actually observed many times prior to the official discovery