What is the planet Neptune like?
Neptune's Blue Mystery
What is the planet Neptune like?
Far, far out at the cold edge of our solar system, where the Sun is just a bright pinprick, spins a deep blue world named Neptune. It's the farthest planet from the Sun — so far that if you tried to drive there, it would take thousands of years. Let's go meet it.
First surprise: Neptune is big. Really big. You could line up about four Earths across its middle and they'd fit, like marbles across a basketball. It's the fourth-largest planet — a giant by any measure.
