Planet Neptune

Jupiter is a gas giant planet and is 1/1000 the size of the sun.

The sun is a star, also a sphere of gas. Because of its greater size and mass, it has nuclear fusion reactions going on it its core, where hydrogen fuses into helium and releases great quantities of energy, which we see as light and radiation..

Neptune is the Roman name of the god of the sea.

In Greek mythology, he would've been called Poseidon.


Neptune (Poseidon) is brother to Jupiter (Zeus) and Pluto (Hades)


A modern reference to this is King Neptune from the televison show "SpongeBob SquarePants"

Neptune's atmosphere is notable for its active and visible weather patterns. For example, at the time of the 1989 Voyager 2, the planet's southern hemisphere possessed a Great Dark Spot comparable to the Great Red Spot on the planet Jupiter. These weather patterns are driven by the strongest sustained winds of any planet in the Solar System, with recorded wind speeds as high as 2,100 km/h. Because Neptune is far from the Sun, Neptune's outer atmosphere is one of the coldest places in the Solar System, with temperatures approaching at −218 C (55 K).

They both are gas giants.

Rotation: 0.6713 earth days.Revolution: 60,182 earth days.

One orbit for Neptune takes nearly 165 Earth years (164.79 years). This is approximately 60,190 Earth days. But a day (complete rotation) for Neptune is much shorter than Earth's, about 16 Earth hours. So there are about 89,666 "Neptune days" in a "Neptune year".

Neptune does not have a "surface" on which to measure temperature. Its gaseous atmosphere gives way to a dense, hot slush of water and ammonia molecules. So while the outer cloud layers are very cold (-218 to -221°C), the interior is much hotter, up to 5000 to 7000°C near the core.

At the point at which the pressure is equal to sea level on Earth, the temperature is only about -200°C (-328°F).

No.

Even though Neptune has not been properly explored, we know the answer to your question is no.

Neptune is too far from the sun, therefore is too cold to support life.

Neptune's gravity is also greater than Earth's, so the pressure on the planet could crush small creatures, preventing evolution into larger creatures.

Also, Neptune is a gas giant, it does not have a rocky surface for anything to stand on.

No.

A dwarf planet is classified as a celestial body in direct orbit of the sun that is large enough to be controlled by gravitational force rather than mechanical forces but has not cleared its path of orbit from other objects and debris.

Where the planet orbits has nothing to do with planets being classified as dwarves.

Yes and no. It's blue, but it does have clouds.

Neptune is blue due to the methane in its atmosphere, but there may be another component (yet unknown) that makes the color so intense compared with Uranus.

There are other patterns like the "scooter" and the Great Dark Spot. There are also clouds which are similar to Earth clouds. They are found in the lower part of the Neptune's atmosphere.

First, it is the last non-controversial planet in the solar system, yet discovered (Pluto is still under debate in some circles). Once Uranus had been discovered, perturbations in its orbit were seen. Calculations were made, and it was predicted that there should be a planet within a certain patch of sky. Within hours, Neptune was discovered in 1846. The next feature that is unique to Neptune is the Great Dark Spot. It is a depression in the atmosphere surrounded by high cirrus clouds. Neptune's Great Dark Spot does not appear to be stable, though. A few years after the Voyagers found it, it had disappeared (Hubble Space Telescope pictures at the right). Then, in 1995, it reappeared in Neptune's northern hemisphere. When the Great Dark Spot was first discovered, it was thought to be moving very slowly. However, when Neptune's rotation rate was finally determined, it showed that the Great Dark Spot wasn't moving slowly with the planet, but was actually moving in a direction opposite the planet's spin at almost supersonic speeds. These are ten times hurricane speeds on Earth. From: http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/advanced/neptune.html

Scientists believe that Neptune is made up chiefly of hydrogen, helium, water, and silicates.

Yes and no.

Neptune gets very little sunlight because it is so far from the sun.

When light does reach Neptune, the red spectrum of the dim sunlight is absorbed my the methane atmosphere and the blue light spectrum is reflected off the methane, which gives the planet its blue colour.

Galileo, although he had no idea he had found a new planet, and did not note it as such, and is therefore, not credited. Neptune was predicted mathematically by a French astronomer, Urbain Le Verrier. Two observers at the Berlin observatory found Neptune within 1 degree of where Le Verrier said it should be.

Neptune's magnetic field is about 27 times stronger than Earth's. It is tilted at an angle of about 47 degrees from the planet's rotational axis, which is believed to be a result of its off-center magnetic field.

It has a solid core which forms a small part of its overall mass.

Triton

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the largest storm hasent quite happend yet , Neptune doesnt really bad storms except 4 1 its still going on its the great dark spot its like a hurricane but insted of rain , theirs winds up to 350 km p\h their is no NO snow on neptune because for snow to happen it would have to rain and since their is only frozen water on neptune