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Neptune Is Neat (and a bit Mysterious!)

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Neptune Is Neat (and a bit Mysterious!)

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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 6
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	challenging words:		methane, further, mysterious, gust, rotate, opposite, gravity, planet, hurricane, also, faster, perhaps, comet, neat, direction, than
	content words:		Great Dark Spot, Great Red Spot, Hubble Space Telescope

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Neptune Is Neat (and a bit Mysterious!) By Erin Horner

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¹     Neptune is a neat planet. It is also a bit mysterious. Neptune is four times bigger across than Earth. It is also thirty times further away from the sun. This means that no one can see Neptune without a telescope. It is just too far away. When scientists and satellites have studied Neptune, they have learned some neat and mysterious things.
 
²     Neptune is covered with bright blue clouds. These clouds are made of frozen methane. They swirl around the planet at up to 1,300 miles per hour. That is a lot faster than any wind gust here on Earth. In 1989 Voyager 2 found a Great Dark Spot on Neptune. This looked a lot like Jupiter's Great Red Spot. They think that it was caused by a swirling hurricane. But in 1994, it was gone! The Hubble Space Telescope could not find it. It seems to have vanished. How mysterious!

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