jupiter, neptune, mars
... storm that has raging for hundreds of years. Jupiter has one known ring. Neptune Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the fourth largest (by diameter). Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus. Neptune was name for Poseidon, the god of the sea. It has a mass of 1.0247e26 kg and a diameter of 49,532 km. Neptune orbit’s the sun at 4,504,000,000 km away. Because Pluto's orbit is so eccentric, it sometimes crosses the orbit of Neptune making Neptune the farthest planet from the Sun for a few years. Neptune 16 hrs. and 17 min. to rotate once. It orbit’s the sun at a speed of 3.4mi/sec, and takes 164.8 years to revolve once around the sun. Neptune’s temperature stays around -357 degrees F. It has 8 moons and 4 rings. Neptune has only been visited by one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on Aug 25 1989. Neptune's blue color is largely the result of absorption of red light by methane in the atmosphere but there is some other unidentified chromophere which gives the clouds their rich bluish color. Neptune is different because it has retro grade winds, (wind flows east to west.) and because of the Great Blue Spot, (a smaller storm, like the great red spot on Jupiter.) Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the seventh largest. Mars got its n...