Neptune
[1] Neptune Neptune which is approximately 4.503 billion years old is the eighth and last planet within the solar system and the furthest away planet from the sun. Being an 'Ice Giant', Neptune's atmosphere consists mostly of Hydrogen (80%), Helium (19%), Methane (1.5%) and water and as previously spoken about in the blog 'Uranus', methane "absorbs the red light from the sun but reflects the blue light from the sun back into space" [2] which results in its blueish colour. Out of all the planets within the solar system, Neptune has the slowest orbital period taking 165 Earth years to make one full orbit around the sun and also has the slowest orbital speed of any planet with speeds averaging just 12,148 miles per hour. Similar to Jupiter, Neptune suffers from extreme winds and storms but it has been proven that Neptune seems to take the record for the highest wind speeds of any planet with "1,200 miles per hour" [3] compared to Jupiter's 38
