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Big Blue Neptune

  • January 29, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The only spacecraft to visit the ice giant Neptune was Voyager 2 in 1989, when it discovered six of the planet’s 13 known moons. Neptune is bright blue thanks to the methane in its atmosphere, and it orbits the sun only once every 165 years.

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