How Does Neptune Influence Space

Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun, it is the most dense out of the giant planets of our solar

Neptune has 14 different moons. Neptune’s largest moon is called Triton. Triton is the only large moon in the solar system to orbit in the opposite direction to its planet’s rotation, this is known as a retrograde orbit. The distance of its orbit is 354,759 km. Its orbit period takes 5.9 days (retrograde). Triton was discovered by William Lassell. Neptune has 5 rings. Neptune is very cold compared to Earth. It is -214 degrees Celsius. Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants. Despite being smaller than Uranus, Neptune has a greater mass. Below its heavy atmosphere, Uranus is made of layers of hydrogen, helium, and methane gases. They enclose a layer of water, ammonia and methane ice. The inner core of the planet is made of

Galileo spacecraft first discovered the four largest moon of Jupiter, called Io, Europa, Ganymede and Ganymede and Callisto. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System Atmosphere And Planetary Composition: Temperature Range: The cloud-tops average 120 K=153*C=-244*F. Atmosphere: Jupiter is a gaseous planet; it does not have a solid surface like the Earth does (but probably has a solid, rocky core 10 to 15 times the mass of the Earth). When we look at Jupiter, we are seeing icy clouds of gases moving at high speeds in the atmosphere. Jupiter's atmosphere is composed of about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium.

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is somewhat more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth but not as dense.[12] On average, Neptune orbits the Sun at a distance of 30.1 AU, approximately 30 times the Earth–Sun distance. Named for the Roman god of the sea, its astronomical symbol is ♆, a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident.

sun than Earth, or 97 Astronomical Units (AU). For comparison, Pluto is 40 AU from the sun.

Neptune is blue, as you can see, and looks almost like the sky.” Rarity loved this planet the most, because she loved when she was at home, she could lay on the ground and stare at the sky and try to find shapes in the clouds. Neptune was as beautiful as a sunny day in summer when she would do exactly that. Rarity could stare at this planet all day long, and since the tour guide knew that Rarity and a lot of the other kids loved this planet so much, they decided that it would be a perfect spot to stop and sleep. Rarity knew they couldn’t go on this planet because it’s another gas giant and it has no surface, but she was still excited that she could sleep right beside it. Her room in the rocket ship had a perfect view of Neptune and so she stayed up almost all night, watching Neptune rotate and watch everything move so quietly. She loved this expedition and she knew that it was worth the

Pluto’s surface temperatures range from -172 to -238 degrees C depending on its proximity to the sun. The closest it came to the sun was in 1989, and scientists believe it has been progressively cooler ever since; experts have agreed that snow is likely.

The surface temperature of Pluto can range from a low temperature of -240 degrees Celsius and -218 degrees Celsius. The average surface temperature on Pluto is usually -229 Celsius.

Triton is the largest satellite that orbits the planet Neptune. The surface of Triton is riddled with cryovolcanoes that emit volatiles such as water, ammonia, or methane, instead of the molten rock that volcanoes on Earth emit. It has an atmospheric pressure of 14 μbar (1/70,000th of Earth’s surface pressure) and a gravitational constant of -0.779 m/s2. The average surface wind speeds are 5-15m/s, and the average temperature is 35 K.

Did you know that Eris is colder than Neptune? Eris is the furthest dwarf planet from the sun, and is also the most massive of the currently recognized dwarf plants. Planet Eris extends far beyond the Kuiper Belt, a zone of icy debris beyond the orbit of Neptune. Eris is so far from the sun that its atmosphere sometimes freezes due to lack of sunlight. Over the course of the hundreds of years it takes the Eris to orbit the Sun, it thaws as it gets closer to the Sun’s heat.

Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is the only planet that is larger. The gas giant is 72 thousand miles in diameter, almost ten times the size of Earth. In spite of its huge size, though, Saturn weighs very little. It is a very light gas planet. Saturn is the least dense planet in the solar system-- so light, in fact, that it would float in water. This planet is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter, but it is much less dense. The combination of its light weight and fast rotation causes Saturn to spread out, or oblate, its center. Since Saturn is a gas planet, it does not have a solid surface. Spacecraft are unable to land on this type of surface. The clouds that are seen when looking at Saturn are just the top layer of a very deep layer that covers a center of liquid hydrogen. The clouds are blown by constant winds that reach speeds up to one thousand miles per hour at the equator of the planet (“Great Space Place”).

Pluto is the outer most planet of our solar system or it used to be until it was classified as a dwarf planet. The tiny planet is only 1473 miles in diameter. frozen methane and nitrogen cover the landscape as well as ice. Pluto is one of the coldest places in our solar system roughly negative 220 degrees C. the atmosphere is made up of methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide, the atmosphere extends about 1600 km above the surface. the surface is about 70% rock and 30% ice. we know that there is water available but it is frozen. The gravity of Pluto is about 0.62m/s2. Pluto has 5 moons and is about 39.48AU away from the sun resulting in such low temperatures.

Neptune has the wildest and strangest weather in the entire Solar System. It has huge storms with extremely high winds. Its atmosphere has dark spots which come and go, and bright cirrus-like clouds which change rapidly. Neptune has an average temperature of -353 Fahrenheit (-214 Celsius). On Earth sunlight drives our weather, but Neptune is so far away that it receives a thousand times less sunlight than Earth does. How Neptune gets the energy for such intense weather is still a mystery

Neptune is the eigth and farthest planet from the sun in the solar system. What does Neptune look like? Neptunes’ color is a deep shade of blue. It has five rings that are made of ice particles coated with silicates. It also has a dark spot “the great dark spot” is a 8,000 mile long spot which is a hug area of storm activity. (mrnussahaum.com) Has the United States explored Neptune? Yes we have. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study and get close to the planet. Right now it is exploring the outermost regins of where the solar wind and sun’s magnetic field dominate space. In September 2007, it crossed the termination shock at 84 AU. (solarsystem.nasa.gov) What feautures have been found on Neptune? The great dark spot which is located on

Some of the scientific data that follows was taken out of Cattermole's book. The mean distance from the sun is 108.20 Km.