Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 21, 2025 · NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
In Depth | Proteus – NASA Solar System Exploration
Overview Proteus is one of the largest of Neptune's known moons, although it is not as big as Triton. The moon has an odd box-like shape and if it had just a little more mass it would be …
In Depth | Triton – NASA Solar System Exploration
Scientists think Triton is a Kuiper Belt Object captured by Neptune's gravity millions of years ago. It shares many similarities with Pluto, the best known world of the Kuiper Belt. Like our own …
RPS 3D Viewer - NASA Solar System Exploration
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Neptune 3D Model – NASA Solar System Exploration
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In Depth | Kuiper Belt – NASA Solar System Exploration
As Neptune tossed icy objects sunward, this caused its own orbit to drift even farther out, and its gravitational influence forced the remaining icy objects into the range of locations where we …
In Depth | Neptune Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
How Neptune's Moons Got Their Names Since Neptune was named for the Roman god of the sea, its moons were named for various lesser sea gods and nymphs in Greek mythology.
In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration
Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as …
Bibliography - NASA Solar System Exploration
Apr 23, 2024 · Scott S. Sheppard's Neptune's Known Satellites Page: http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/users/sheppard/satellites/nepsatdata.html Scott S. Sheppard's Pluto's …
In 1943, astronomer Kenneth Edgeworth hypothesized that many small, icy bodies exist in a disc in the region beyond Neptune, having condensed from widely spaced ancient material, and …