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The dark areas on Neptune are?

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The Great Dark Spot was a very dynamic weather system, generating large, white clouds similar to high-altitude cirrus clouds on Earth. Unlike cirrus clouds on Earth, which are composed of crystals of water ice, Neptune's cirrus clouds are made up of crystals of frozen methane. Neptune's clouds are driven by winds of 1,200 mph, the fastest winds of any planet in the Solar System. How such high-velocity winds come to be on a planet so far from the Sun is still a deep mystery.

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I think because something landed on the neptune and then the great dark spot is the hole.

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The famous "dark spot" in Neptune was a storm that a probe spotted when it flew past in 1989. Five years past, and the storm was over.

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They are storm spots that come and go.

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