NEPTUNE - THE "BLUEST PLANET"

INFO

• Neptune is the 8th and last legitimate planet from the sun.
• Neptune orbits the sun from approx. 30.16 AU.
• Neptune takes around 164.8 Earth years to orbit the sun with no unusual pattern.
• One day on Neptune is actually .72 of a day, which is about 17 and a half hours.
• Neptune is mostly gaseous and has a bluish hue, and also a raging storm called the "Great Dark Spot."

STATISTICS

• Size: d: 30, 783 mi, roughly the size of four Earths.
• Mass in kg: 1.02x10^26.
• 13 moons, most famously Triton, which was discoved in 1846.
• Neptune surprisingly has rings, 4 very faint rings of ice discovered in 1989.

Neptune does have a special feature, the "Great Dark Spot," a giant storm that has raged on since the discovery of the planet. Though it's axis is not tilted very much, not giving it any extreme seasonal change. Many types of spacecraft have visited this planet, finding many interesting things around and about the planet. The orbit of Neptune also does cross with Pluto's orbit, but this is due to Pluto's unusual orbit.

Things to Remember:
Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun, so it will be extremely cold. Though, it is very much like going into an ocean of pure water, but feels like air. It's like a marine-fanatic's dream! You might always remember how the planet goes so deep in, that you could walk for about 5 hours and make it all the way around the center core!