Explore Neptune
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 that the Earth’s lithosphere is broken into giant plates, which occasionally move and can produce earthquakes?
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Shadow zonexShadow zone : The shadow zone is the area of the earth from angular distances of 104 to 140 degrees from a given earthquake that does not receive any direct P waves. The shadow zone results from S waves being stopped entirely by the liquid core and P waves being b
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Research Highlights
In dark, rich soils on every continent, microbes dealing with the effects of climate change aren't accelerating global warming the way scientists had predicted, a study by researchers at the University...
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