Explore Neptune
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The Giant planets do not have the same kind of structure inside that the terrestrial planets ...
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Neptune's atmosphere shows a striped pattern of clouds. This cloud pattern is very similar ...
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The magnetosphere of Neptune is very much like that of Uranus, medium sized but still much ...
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Neptune's largest moon is named Triton. Triton is much larger than any of the planet's other moons. ...
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The South Pole of the planet Neptune is unusual in several ways. Triton, Neptune's largest ...
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All of the relevant information about Neptune collected on one page, including details about size, orbit ...
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Neptune was the god of the waters and was a son of Chronos and a brother of Jupiter and of Pluto ...
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A table containing information about the spacecraft that have visited Neptune ...
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Access wonderful captioned photos and illustrations that will inspire and excite you. ...
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These are links to other great web sites about Neptune. But beware: you don't want to get ...
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Did you know?
Did you know that there may be 200 or so
dwarf planets in the solar system, out to the
Kuiper Belt?
Did you know that the ancient Greeks revered Gaea as the Earth goddess, and that she was the mother of the Titans and the first humans?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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RefractionxRefraction : Refraction is the deflection, or bending, of the ray path of a seismic wave caused by its passage from one material to another having different elastic properties; or the bending of a tsunami wave front owing to variations in the water depth along a
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Research Highlights
Current observational tools cannot account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, according to a "Perspectives" article in this week's issue of the journal...
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