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The Blue Planet |
| One Neptune year lasts
165 Earth years!
It is so cold on Neptune that you would need skin thicker than a polar bear's to stay warm. Like Uranus, it is a large gas planet that looks like a big blue-green ball in the sky. Neptune has winds in its atmosphere which blow at over 2000 kilometres per hour! Neptune has two thick and two thin rings. Neptune also has eight moons. Four of these moons orbit the planet within the rings. One of Neptune's moons, Triton, orbits the planet in a direction opposite that of the seven other moons. Pluto has got an unusual elliptical shaped orbit, for this reason Neptune can be the farthest planet from the Sun for a 20 year period out of every 248 Earth years. |
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