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Neptune: The Windy Eighth Planet From The Sun

- Neptune is about four times wider than Earth and orbits the Sun at a distance of about 4.5 billion kilometers, taking 165 Earth years to complete its orbit. - Neptune's atmosphere is made up mostly of molecular hydrogen, atomic helium and methane. It has 14 known moons named after sea gods and nymphs in Greek mythology. - Neptune has at least five main rings and four more ring arcs, which are clumps of dust and debris likely formed by the gravity of a nearby moon. Neptune cannot support life as we know it due to extreme temperatures and volatile conditions.

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Neptune: The Windy Eighth Planet From The Sun

- Neptune is about four times wider than Earth and orbits the Sun at a distance of about 4.5 billion kilometers, taking 165 Earth years to complete its orbit. - Neptune's atmosphere is made up mostly of molecular hydrogen, atomic helium and methane. It has 14 known moons named after sea gods and nymphs in Greek mythology. - Neptune has at least five main rings and four more ring arcs, which are clumps of dust and debris likely formed by the gravity of a nearby moon. Neptune cannot support life as we know it due to extreme temperatures and volatile conditions.

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ПІДГОТУВАЛИ ГРИНЮК ДАР'Я ТА САВЧЕНКО МАРІЯ

Neptune: The windy


eighth planet from the
sun

DARK, COLD, AND WHIPPED BY


SUPERSONIC WINDS, ICE GIANT
NEPTUNE IS THE EIGHTH AND MOST
DISTANT PLANET IN OUR SOLAR
SYSTEM.

MORE THAN 30 TIMES AS FAR FROM THE


SUN AS EARTH, NEPTUNE IS THE ONLY
PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM NOT
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE. NEPTUNE
IS SO FAR FROM THE SUN THAT HIGH
NOON ON THE BIG BLUE PLANET
WOULD SEEM LIKE DIM TWILIGHT TO US.
THE WARM LIGHT WE SEE HERE ON OUR
HOME PLANET IS ROUGHLY 900 TIMES
AS BRIGHT AS SUNLIGHT ON NEPTUNE.
NAME

NEPTUNE WAS DISCOVERED ON


SEPTEMBER 23, 1846. IT IS THE SECOND
PLANET TO BE FOUND USING A
TELESCOPE. ALTHOUGH JOHANN
GOTTFRIED GALLE AND HEINRICH LOUIS URBAIN-JEAN-JOSEPH LE VERRIER

D’ARREST HAVE THE DISTINCTION OF


HAVING BEEN THE FIRST INDIVIDUALS TO
IDENTIFY NEPTUNE IN THE NIGHT SKY,
CREDIT FOR ITS “DISCOVERY” WAS
EVENTUALLY CREDITED TO JOHN COUCH
ADAMS AND URBAIN-JEAN-JOSEPH LE
VERRIER.

IN ROMAN MYTHOLOGY, NEPTUNE WAS


THE GOD OF THE SEA.
JOHN COUCH ADAMS
POTENTIAL FOR LIFE

NEPTUNE'S ENVIRONMENT IS
NOT CONDUCIVE TO LIFE AS WE
KNOW IT. THE TEMPERATURES
(LOWER THAN -200C),
PRESSURES, AND MATERIALS
THAT CHARACTERIZE THIS
PLANET ARE MOST LIKELY TOO
EXTREME AND VOLATILE FOR
ORGANISMS TO ADAPT TO.
SIZE AND DISTANCE

WITH A RADIUS OF 24,622


KILOMETERS, NEPTUNE IS
ABOUT FOUR TIMES WIDER
THAN EARTH. IF EARTH WERE
THE SIZE OF A NICKEL,
NEPTUNE WOULD BE ABOUT AS
BIG AS A BASEBALL.

FROM AN AVERAGE DISTANCE


OF 4.5 BILLION KILOMETERS,
NEPTUNE IS 30 ASTRONOMICAL
UNITS AWAY FROM THE SUN.
ORBIT AND ROTATION

ONE DAY ON NEPTUNE TAKES ABOUT 16


HOURS. AND NEPTUNE MAKES A
COMPLETE ORBIT AROUND THE SUN (A
YEAR IN NEPTUNIAN TIME) IN ABOUT 165
EARTH YEARS. SOMETIMES NEPTUNE IS
EVEN FARTHER FROM THE SUN THAN
DWARF PLANET PLUTO.

NEPTUNE’S AXIS OF ROTATION IS TILTED


28 DEGREES WITH RESPECT TO THE
PLANE OF ITS ORBIT AROUND THE SUN.
THIS MEANS THAT NEPTUNE
EXPERIENCES SEASONS JUST LIKE WE
DO ON EARTH; HOWEVER, SINCE ITS
YEAR IS SO LONG, EACH OF THE FOUR
SEASONS LASTS FOR OVER 40 YEARS.

ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE


NEPTUNE’S COLOR IS A VERY VIVID, BRIGHT BLUE,


THE ATMOSPHERE IS MADE UP MOSTLY OF
HYDROGEN, HELIUM, AND METHANE.

IT'S THE ONLY GIANT PLANET TO DISPLAY CLOUD


SHADOWS CAST BY HIGH DISPERSED CLOUDS ON
A LOWER, MORE CONTINUOUS CLOUD BANK.

NEPTUNE MAY NOT BE AS COLD AS URANUS, BUT


IT HAS THE MOST POWERFUL WINDS OUT OF ALL
THE PLANETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM, DESPITE
BEING THE FURTHEST PLANET FROM THE SUN
AND RECEIVING THE LOWEST ENERGY INPUT
FROM IT.

NEPTUNE HAS AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF -214


DEGREES CELSIUS; WIND SPEEDS BLOWING
WESTWARD ON THE EQUATOR REACH UP 2.13
KILOMETERS PER HOUR, NEARLY A SUPERSONIC
FLOW.
MOONS

A TOTAL OF 14 KNOWN MOONS


SURROUND NEPTUNE. THEY HAVE ALL
BEEN NAMED AFTER WATER DEITIES IN
GREEK MYTHOLOGY.

THE FIRST MOON DISCOVERED WAS


TRITON, JUST 17 DAYS AFTER NEPTUNE
ITSELF WAS DISCOVERED. TRITON IS
THE ONLY LARGE MOON IN THE SOLAR
SYSTEM THAT CIRCLES ITS PLANET IN A
DIRECTION OPPOSITE TO THE PLANET'S
ROTATION (A RETROGRADE ORBIT),
WHICH SUGGESTS THAT IT MAY ONCE
HAVE BEEN AN INDEPENDENT OBJECT
THAT NEPTUNE CAPTURED. TRITON IS
ICY, WITH SURFACE TEMPERATURES
AROUND MINUS 235 DEGREES CELSIUS.

RINGS

NEPTUNE HAS AT LEAST FIVE MAIN RINGS


AND FOUR PROMINENT RING ARCS THAT WE
KNOW OF SO FAR. THE MAIN RINGS ARE
NAMED GALLE, LEVERRIER, LASSELL, ARAGO,
AND ADAMS. THE RINGS ARE THOUGHT TO BE
RELATIVELY YOUNG AND SHORT-LIVED.
NEPTUNE'S RING SYSTEM ALSO HAS
PECULIAR CLUMPS OF DUST CALLED ARCS.
FOUR ARCS NAMED LIBERTY, EQUALITY,
FRATERNITY, AND COURAGE ARE IN THE
OUTERMOST RING, ADAMS.

THE FACT THAT THE RINGS WERE MOST


VISIBLE IN VOYAGER IMAGES WHEN BACKLIT
BY SUNLIGHT IMPLIES THAT THEY ARE
LARGELY POPULATED BY DUST-SIZED
PARTICLES. NEPTUNE’S RING PARTICLES MAY
BE COMPOSED OF RADIATION-DARKENED
METHANE ICES.
SUMMARY

NEPTUNE IS ABOUT FOUR TIMES NEPTUNE CANNOT SUPPORT LIFE AS NEPTUNE ORBITS OUR SUN, A
WIDER THAN EARTH. WE KNOW IT. STAR, AND IS THE EIGHTH
PLANET FROM THE SUN AT A
DISTANCE OF ABOUT 4.5
BILLION KILOMETERS.
NEPTUNE ORBITS OUR SUN, A
STAR, AND IS THE EIGHTH
PLANET FROM THE SUN AT A
NEPTUNE'S ATMOSPHERE IS
DISTANCE OF ABOUT 4.5
MADE UP MOSTLY OF
BILLION KILOMETERS.
MOLECULAR HYDROGEN,
ATOMIC HELIUM AND
METHANE.
NEPTUNE TAKES ABOUT
16 HOURS TO ROTATE
ONCE AND ABOUT 165 NEPTUNE HAS 14 KNOWN
EARTH YEARS TO ORBIT MOONS, WHICH ARE NAMED
THE SUN. AFTER SEA GODS AND
NYMPHS IN GREEK
MYTHOLOGY.
NEPTUNE IS AN ICE GIANT.
MOST OF ITS MASS IS A
HOT, DENSE FLUID OF NEPTUNE HAS AT LEAST FIVE
"ICY" MATERIALS – WATER, MAIN RINGS AND FOUR MORE
METHANE, AND AMMONIA – RING ARCS, WHICH ARE
BECAUSE OF DWARF PLANET CLUMPS OF DUST AND
ABOVE A SMALL ROCKY PLUTO’S ELLIPTICAL ORBIT, PLUTO
CORE. DEBRIS LIKELY FORMED BY
IS SOMETIMES CLOSER TO THE SUN THE GRAVITY OF A NEARBY
THAN NEPTUNE IS. MOON.

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