Neptune
Neptune, the eighth and furthest planet from the Sun, is a very cold place. Its bluish color is caused by small amounts of methane gas in its atmosphere. The planet has moons and a very narrow, faint ring system.
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Interior and Surface of Neptune
The Giant planets do not have the same kind of structure inside that the terrestrial planets ...Read more
Atmosphere of Neptune
Neptune's atmosphere shows a striped pattern of clouds. This cloud pattern is very similar ...Read more
Neptune's Magnetosphere
The magnetosphere of Neptune is very much like that of Uranus, medium sized but still much ...Read more
Neptune's Moons and Rings
Neptune's largest moon is named Triton. Triton is much larger than any of the planet's other moons. ...Read more
The Poles of Neptune and its Moons
The South Pole of the planet Neptune is unusual in several ways. Triton, Neptune's largest ...Read more
Planetary Facts
All of the relevant information about Neptune collected on one page, including details about size, orbit ...Read more
Myth and Culture
Neptune was the god of the waters and was a son of Chronos and a brother of Jupiter and of Pluto ...Read more
Missions to Neptune
A table containing information about the spacecraft that have visited Neptune ...Read more
Images and Multimedia
Access wonderful captioned photos and illustrations that will inspire and excite you. ...Read more
Neptune Links
These are links to other great web sites about Neptune. But beware: you don't want to get ...Read moreMore about Neptune
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Do you know what this word or phrase means?Shadow zone
xShadow zone : The shadow zone is the area of the earth from angular distances of 104 to 140 degrees from a given earthquake that does not receive any direct P waves. The shadow zone results from S waves being stopped entirely by the liquid core and P waves being b
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Research Highlights
Oldest Earth Mantle Reservoir Discovered
Researchers have found a primitive Earth mantle reservoir on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Geologist Matthew Jackson and his colleagues from a multi-institution collaboration report the finding--the...Read more
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