Neptune is thought to be like Uranus. But have a lot of things in common and different about one another. Neptune and Uranus are both very big planets compared to Earth. But first let’s take in mind Neptune and how it is moderately like Jupiter. According to The Sky on Neptune there is also a gigantic blue spot (like Jupiter). Astronomers (scientists) don’t have much of a concept on how it formed and what it is. Neptune is the furthest planet from (not including the dwarf planets) the sun making it freezing. It’s -210o C (-346o F) that is extremely cold.
Neptune was discovered in 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle. Neptune has 13 found moons. Most of these from Voyager 2’s mission. According to The Sky, Triton the biggest and most known moon of Neptune it’s diameter of 1,680 miles or 2,700 kilometers. Remember that blue spot on Neptune. This blue spot was found in the southern hemisphere. It later disappeared in 1994. Scientists and Astronomers were very Bewildered on why it disappeared. But recently they observed another spot in the northern hemisphere there not sure why these blue spots are ephemeral.This may indicate that Neptune’s atmosphere is highly
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active and prone to show sudden and even severe changes. They also established that there was also a few other small blue spots. Many of the things we learned and found on Neptune from Voyager 2’s mission.
People may know that Neptune’s blue gas (like Uranus) comes from red light being absorbed by the methane gas in the planet's upper atmosphere. Neptune being the fourth biggest planet (slightly smaller than Uranus) has been pondered for years. According to The Sky, Neptune and Uranus have identical formation or what they are made of. Neptune also has the Swiftist gale in the Solar System. Occasionally reaching velocities as high as 1,200 miles or (2000 km) per hour. They had also discovered very delicate rings on Voyager 2’s mission. There are four precise rings surrounding Neptune. Neptune’s field is tilted 47 degrees (Comparable to Uranus) from its rotational axis. Scientists suppose this is because of a strong force deep within the
planet. All in all Neptune has been compared to Jupiter and Uranus thoroughly. They also established facts from it’s blue spots, to its moons, and it’s speeding winds. We also clarified Voyager 2’s mission. It went over the temperature and everything else associated to that. New discoveries are still being made to this day.
Poseidon is a god with a lot of names he is most famous as the god of the sea, he controls the waves, the tsunamis, he cares for the plants and animals under the water he is Poseidon king of all waters. Poseidon had quite a bit of affairs. One affair involved his sister Demeter. He thought she was absolutely beautiful and desired her deeply. To avoid his constant sexual desires, Demeter turned herself into a mare, an act that only made Poseidon’s desire higher than ever. He turned himself into a stallion and raped her. This affair created a horse named Arion.
Neptune was discovered through a discrepancy in Uranus’s orbit. Uranus’s orbit was not moving how astronomers predicted it would. They could not find an elliptical orbit that fit Uranus’s trajectory. They therefore assumed that there had to be another planet that’s gravitational pull was effecting Uranus. Johann Galle was the first to find Neptune in 1846, even though many before him had mathematically predicted where this new planet would be. The planet was named Neptune and two astronomers who had predicted mathematically where it would be are credited with finding it not Galle.
While it can be found on Earth in a natural state, quantities are very low, no higher than 0.000137%. The moon has large quantities of Helium-3, as current analyses indicate that there are at least 1 million metric tons embedded in the lunar surface. About half the Helium-3 is deposited in a portion of about 20% of th...
Pluto is smaller than Earth's Moon, Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, Saturn's moon Titan, and Neptune's moon Triton. On the other hand, Pluto is larger than the other 40 known moons in the solar system. There is no scientific reason to arbitrarily dis...
Jupiter has many moons, Sixty-seven actually. There are only four moons that scientists are very interested on. These four moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The reasons scientists are so interested in these moons are since they might have found evidence of small life forms, such as bacteria and planets on these moons. The moon Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system. It would be interesting to find life on these planets.
This paper is an overview of the Kepler spacecraft and its mission in space. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Association (NASA), Kepler, named after Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, “is a space observatory launched…to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.” Kepler does this by searching for planets within our galaxy that have a similar size to Earth within a habitable zone. A habitable zone is a distance between the planet and its star where water can exist on the planet’s surface. Additionally, Kepler is aimed at searching for planets with similar one-year orbits like that of Earth. As technology advances on Earth, increased standards of living and life expectancies have taken a toll on Earth’s fleeting, finite resources. Kepler potentially provides scientists with information regarding planets that can serve as a future home when resources have diminished and information that can foreshadow inevitabilities about Earth through older, Earth-like planets.
Pluto is usually farther from the Sun than any of the nine planets; however, due to the eccentricity of its orbit, it is closer than Neptune for 20 years out of its 249 year orbit. Pluto crossed Neptune's orbit January 21, 1979, made its closest approach September 5, 1989, and will remain within the orbit of Neptune until February 11, 1999. This will not occur again until September 2226.
On June of 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin began pressuring the Allies to create a second front in Western Europe, so that pressure could be relieved from the Soviet Union. But before they could open up a second front they first had to establish a foothold in Western Europe. For this reason, Operation Neptune was developed, its main goal: develop a foothold for the Allies in Western Europe. Operation Neptune was considered one the greatest events in history and the largest seaborne invasion in recorded history. Due to the size and importance of the operation, great planning and preparation had to be done for it. Failure of the operation would have weakened the Allies position. This investigation will research whether
Uranus is so far away that scientists knew comparatively little about it before NASA's Voyager 2 undertook its historic first encounter with the planet. The spacecraft flew closely past distant Uranus, and came within 81,500 kilometers (50,600 miles) of Uranus's cloudtops on Jan. 24, 1986. Voyager 2 radioed thousands of images and mass amounts of other scientific data about Uranus, its moons, rings, atmosphere, interior and magnetic environment. However, while Voyager has revealed much about the gas giant, many questions remain to be answered.
Poseidon is one of the most know gods, he is most known for being the God of the Sea and protector of all waters. He had children including Orion, Polyphemus, Pelias, and many others. Poseidon is the son of Cronus and Rhea, some say he was swallowed by his father along with Hades, Demeter, Hestia, and Hera his siblings. Others say Poseidon like Zeus was not swallowed by Cronus, The mother Rhea tricked Cronus and said she gave birth to a flock of lambs so he devoured the lambs. Poseidon could strike the ground with his trident to create an earthquake which gave him the nickname “Earth-Shaker”. (Poseidon God of the sea Page 1)
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has yet to be discovered as in depth as Juno will. NASA New Frontiers recently established the Juno Mission to observe Jupiter (Ionescu 1). The spacecraft is currently on route to Jupiter and it is set to arrive in 2016. Juno will orbit Jupiter thirty-three times total before shutting down (Ionescu 1). Juno will observe Jupiter with deeper observation than can be seen by a telescope. The Juno Spacecraft is a project made to discover Jupiter’s high winds, a possible water source, and the planetary structure.
In the second installment of The Heroes of Olympus, The Son of Neptune is a thrilling adventure written by Rick Riordan. The book begins where The Lost Hero left off. Percy, also in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, is wandering Southern California with no memory of where he came from or who he is except one name, Annabeth. Being chased by three gorgons, Percy stumbles upon, with the help of Hera/Juno, Camp Jupiter. In the Roman camp, Percy joins the 5th cohort, which are the misfits of the camp, and befriends Hazel the daughter of Pluto and Frank the son of Mars, who are the biggest misfits of all. Percy and his newfound friends are soon called on a quest. Their mission is to recover the missing standard of the entire legion. They board the Pax, a small rowboat which makes up the entire Roman navy, and embark on their journey.
The gas giants are a collection of planets in our solar system. As can be told from their name, they are mostly composed of differing mixtures of gases and ices. The gas and ice composition in question varies among the different planets. This mix of gases gives much of the planets an extremely thick atmosphere. At the very center of a gas giant is a core of liquid heavy metals. The gas giants are also called Jovian planets, taken from the largest planet in our solar system: Jupiter. Due to the fact the the majority of a gas giant planet is gas, the planet isn’t very dense and therefore, very large as a result. In fact, all of the gas giants are vastly larger than all of the terrestrial planets. Another common factor of the gas giants are their large amount of moons. The terrestrial planet, Mars, has the largest amount of moons, 2. The amount of moons of Mars is dwarfed in comparison to Saturn’s and Jupiter’s moo...
Pluto is located 7.5 billion kilometers from Earth and is only over 2,000 km in diameter. Pluto has been labeled both a planet and a dwarf planet over the years. As said by USA Today, “a planet is a celestial body that: is in orbit around the sun, is round or nearly round, and has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit, meaning it is not surrounded by objects of similar size and characteristics.” Pluto only follows two of the three rules of a planet. Pluto crosses over Neptune’s orbit and is near other dwarf planets like it. Even though it breaks one rule it was officially named a dwarf planet in “August 2006”, as stated by the Library of Congress. After this event Pluto still only has one correct classification. Pluto is a planet because
Titan, otherwise known as Saturn VI, is a very unique moon. 50% larger and 80% more massive than earth’s lone moon and larger even (but 40% less massive) than the planet Mercury, Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system after Jupiter’s Ganymede. Titan has 1/7th the gravity of earth and is tidally locked to Saturn, with identical orbital and rotational periods of approximately 16 earth days.