Published 12:40 IST, September 19th 2020

Neptune surface pictures and features that you must check out

Neptune photos of its surface captured by the Voyager 2 are majestic. Here's everything you need to know about Neptune's surface characteristics and more.

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Neptune took over as mantel of being last planet and most distant planet in our solar system after Pluto’s fall from grace. 8th planet is a dark and cold world filled by supersonic winds. Neptune is around 30 times furr than Earth from Sun. Before discovering planet of Neptune, its existence had been predicted by mamatics. Neptune is also only planet that is t actually visible directly from Earth’s surface, without help of any equipment.

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Neptune Surface Photos

Here is a closer look at ice giant Neptune, Straight from eyes of Voyr 2:

Ims sourced from Voyr.jpl.nasa.gov

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Neptune Surface Features

  • According to solarsystem.nasa.gov, Neptune is around 4 times bigger in size than Earth. If it is assumed that Earth is of size of a tennis ball, Neptune would be size of a basketball or a football.
  • Neptune revolves in an orbit around sun just like every planet in solar system. It is 8th and last planet in solar system. total distance between Sun and Neptune is around 4.5 billion kilometers or 2.8 billion miles
  • A Neptunian day is shorter than a standard Earth day. Neptune takes around 16 hours to rotate and complete a day, compared to 24 hours Earth takes. A Neptunian year constitutes approximately 165 Earth years, as that’s amount of time Neptune takes to complete one revolution around Sun.
  • Neptune is an icy world. Neptune Surface is filled with a hot, dense, icy substances such as ammonia, water, and methane. Neptune has a small rocky core.
  • atmosphere that surrounds planet Neptune is quite gassy. atmosphere is filled with molecular hydrogen, methane, and atomic helium.
  • planet Neptune has been discovered to have a total of 14 moons that revolve around planet. names of se moons have been picked up from Greek Mythology. moons have been named after Sea Gods and Nymphs.
  • planet Neptune has 5 main rings around planet and 4 ring arcs. se are clusters of dust and debris that have been formed with help of gravity from one of nearby moons.
  • planet is t kwn to have resources to support life. Neptune is a cold Lifeless planet
  • re has been only one ship that has come close to study far way planet at length. Voyr 2 is only ship capable of accomplishing this task to date.
  • Neptune is sometimes furr from Sun than Pluto due to elliptical nature of Pluto’s orbit

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12:40 IST, September 19th 2020