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Most (80% or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane, and ammonia – above a small, rocky core. Of the giant planets, Neptune is the densest. Scientists think there might be an ocean of super hot water under Neptune's cold clouds.
Since it is the color of water, Neptune was named for the Roman god of the sea. Its blue-green color, however, is due to methane gas. The thick outer atmospheric layer of hydrogen, helium, and methane is extremely cold: −350°F (−212°C).
17 Απρ 2023 · Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the sun but it is not the coldest. Our solar system 's blue gas giant is far larger than Earth, at more than 17 times Earth's mass and nearly 58...
23 Ιουν 2023 · Yet Neptune's the eighth planet in the solar system, about 30 times farther away from the sun than Earth. The distance between Neptune and its parent star is a staggering 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers), making it the farthest planet from the sun.
Most (80% or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane, and ammonia – above a small, rocky core. Of the giant planets, Neptune is the densest. Scientists think there might be an ocean of super hot water under Neptune's cold clouds.
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times the mass of Earth. Compared to its fellow ice giant Uranus, Neptune is slightly more massive, but denser and smaller.
2 ημέρες πριν · Like the other giant planets, Neptune consists primarily of hydrogen, helium, water, and other volatile compounds, along with rocky material, and it has no solid surface. It receives less than half as much sunlight as Uranus, but heat escaping from its interior makes Neptune slightly warmer than Uranus.
