Solar+System+by+Malika

MALIKA McCLENDON​​  ​  How //do //scientists Know what its like   on **Neptune** What is it like ?  Can you imagine going into space with no gravity while you float in the air? On mars there are dust storms. Mars also is the planet that has two moons. Mercury has lots of craters. Mercury is the first planet. It is the hottest planet. Neptune is covered in blue clouds and its winds are up to nine hundred miles per hour. Venus rotates so that its day is longer than a year. Venus is covered with a big poisonous cloud . Neptune is the outermost planet of the gas giants. The voyager 2 is the space craft that was launched to observe planet Neptune in 1989. Also the gases in the atmosphere give Neptune a blue color. Neptune has clouds that change rapidly over periods of seven to tens of hours. Neptune is the eighth planet. Neptune is 2,794 billon miles away from the sun. Neptune has at least eight moons. A year on Neptune is 165 Earth days long. One day is sixteen Earth hours long. The reason why scientist know what it is like on Neptune is because Encounter Voyage 2. Neptune has long bright clouds similar to cirrus clouds on Earth and they were seen on Neptune. Neptune has a great dark spot just like planet Jupiter. Most of what we know about Neptune comes from Encounter Voyage 2. If Neptune were hollow it would hold about 60 Earths .