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Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres with Atlantic Neptune maps, Sydney, Nova Scotia To accommodate the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists , Cape Breton was created as a separate colony from Nova Scotia (as was New Brunswick) and DesBarres served as the lieutenant governor of Cape Breton from 1784 to 1787.
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Neptune's equatorial radius of 24,764 km [11] is nearly four times that of Earth. Neptune, like Uranus, is an ice giant, a subclass of giant planet, because they are smaller and have higher concentrations of volatiles than Jupiter and Saturn. [73]
I am very grateful to the many people on Twitter who commented on a draft of the map. I hope that you enjoy using the map as much as I did making it." Description on map: "Starting with the lowest area, Blue Earth Bathymetry depicts the ocean floor. Land colors are a mix of Natural Earth 2 and Copernicus Land Cover.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first image of Neptune, and it's the best view of the planet's rings in over 30 years.
A celestial object's axial tilt indicates whether the object's rotation is prograde or retrograde. Axial tilt is the angle between an object's rotation axis and a line perpendicular to its orbital plane passing through the object's centre. An object with an axial tilt up to 90 degrees is rotating in the same direction as its primary.
South-up map orientation is the orientation of a map with south up, at the top of the map, amounting to a 180-degree rotation of the map from the standard convention of north-up. Maps in this orientation are sometimes called upside down maps or reversed maps .
By: Troy Frisby/Patrick Jones, Buzz60 NASA's new pictures of Earth are reigniting conspiracy theories straight out of "Journey to the Center of the Earth."