Neptune's Web
These are links to other great web sites about Neptune. But beware: you don't want to get caught in Neptune's Web! Don't stay away from Windows to the Universe for long!
NASA's Neptune Page
Neptune A simple page with images and animations.
Neptune's Ring System Everything you always wanted to know about Neptune's Rings.
Nine Planets: Neptune
NSSDC Neptune Photo Gallery
StarDate Online: Neptune
Voyager Home Page
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How did life evolve on Earth? The answer to this question can help us understand our past and prepare for our future. Although evolution provides credible and reliable answers, polls show that many people turn away from science, seeking other explanations with which they are more comfortable.
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Neptune has // Call the moon count function defined in the document head print_moon_count('neptune'); moons. It also has rings, but its rings are different from Saturn's. Neptune's largest moon is named
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The Giant planets do not have the same kind of layers inside that the Earth-like planets do. Their evolution was quite different than that of the Earth-like planets, and they have much more gas and ice
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The South Pole of the planet Neptune is a bit strange. Triton, Neptune's largest moon, also has interesting features at its poles. Neptune is tilted on its axis by about 28°. That isn't so strange... Earth
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The atmosphere of Neptune is very similar to that of Uranus, and unlike that of Saturn and Jupiter. On Jupiter and Saturn, the atmosphere is mostly composed of the simple molecules hydrogen and helium.
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There are four ideas for the origin of a planetary atmosphere. Those four ideas are: 1. that the planet-elements of which a planet was made released the atmosphere, 2. that the atmosphere was drawn to
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Unlike Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the Great Dark Spot of Neptune is thought to be a hole, similar to the hole in the ozone layer on Earth, in the methane cloud deck of Neptune. The white clouds shown in
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On this scale you can see that the "rocky" materials such as Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Nickel, and Lead, that the terrestrial planets are made of can condense out of a very hot nebula, but ice will not
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