top 10 interesting facts about Planet Neptune

 

1. Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the sun in our solar system.
2. It is the fourth largest planet and has the third largest mass of all the planets.
3. Neptune has the strongest winds of any planet in the solar system, reaching speeds up to 2,100 mph.
4. It has 14 known moons, the largest of which is Triton. Triton is the only large moon in the solar system that orbits in the opposite direction of its planet's rotation.
5. Neptune has a blue color due to the presence of methane in its atmosphere.
6. Neptune completes one orbit around the sun every 164.8 years.
7. The planet was first observed in 1846 by Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams, and Johann Galle.
8. Neptune has a large, dark storm feature in its atmosphere called the Great Dark Spot, similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
9. The planet's magnetic field is tilted at a 47-degree angle and is offset from the planet's center.
10. In 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and so far only spacecraft to visit Neptune.