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However, at Neptune’s surface, the gravity is only about 1.1 times the gravity we experience on Earth. In other words, if ...
Explore all 16 of Neptune's moons along with their names and dates of discovery. The Neptunian system hosts some very strange and elusive moons.
Neptune is just one of two ice giants in our cosmic family, along with Uranus. It's blanketed in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, with traces of methane, water, and ammonia.
Neptune is about 30 times farther than we are from the Sun (2.8 billion miles to our 93 million miles)—the farthest in the solar system (aside from the dwarf planets). Its effective temperature ...
Neptune's elliptical, oval-shaped orbit keeps the planet an average distance from the sun of almost 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers), or roughly 30 times as far away as Earth, making it ...
Other Neptune planet facts Gravity. Neptune’s surface gravity is almost Earth-like. However because it is just a ball of gas and ice no humans could stand on it because you would sink.
An analysis of photos taken by Voyager 2 in the 1980s shows that Neptune and Uranus have a similar pale blue hue as perceived by ... Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more ...