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The windy planet

By Daniel Smith on Nov 11, 09 02:03 PM

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Neptune's probably my favourite planet.

It's the furthest from the sun, yet it looks very much like the Earth thanks to its blue hue and white fluffy clouds.

This icy giant is also home to the fastest winds in the solar system.

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Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.

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