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SOLAR SYSTEM - OUTER PLANETS
Lesson 2 - Page 7

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NEPTUNE

Neptune, Son of Saturn, and brother to Jupiter and Pluto, god of the sea. Usually shown carrying a trident and rising from the sea. The god of the sea among the Romans.

Neptune's blue atmosphere has storm systems similar of those in Jupiter's atmosphere. Optically thin methane ice cloud exists. Neptune's magnetic field is highly titled and offset from the planet's center, it rotates once every 16.11 hours. There are 2 narrow and 2 broad rings that circle the planet.

Neptune has 13 moons with Triton being the largest with methane and nitrogen at their polar caps and a thin atmosphere.



1989 Voyager 2 photo.



Triton, a moon of Neptune

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