QUESTION: If it rained on Neptune, would it rain helium or something else? ANSWER from Heidi Hammel on April 25th,1996: If it rained anything on Neptune, it would probably methane up in the upper atmosphere, or deeper down, it might be water. I think a more likely thing to happen on Neptune, though, is snow storms. But instead of water snow like on Earth, Neptune would have methane snow. Heidi