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This 1989 NASA film highlights discoveries made by the Voyager II space probe in its flyby of Neptune and its largest moon Triton that year. No spacecraft has visited Neptune since...
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Feb 27, 2023 · Four hours and six seconds after they had been taken at Neptune, the images from Voyager 2 reached Earth in August 1989, and they showed something weird. Triton, a large moon that orbits Neptune backwards, opposite the direction that most of the other moons in the solar system do, had some dark splotches on its cold icy surface.
The full version of an animation showing Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune in 1989. - Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech. Sylvie Rueff, a member of the CGL at JPL, wo...
Nov 5, 2024 · In a study published in early 2024, scientists reprocessed the images of Neptune from the Voyager 2 mission to reveal the planet’s true colors. Patrick Irwin. Neptune is named after the god...
Aug 26, 2019 · Voyager passed behind both Neptune and Triton, with instruments returning data about their atmospheres. The spacecraft also returned spectacular images of the two bodies backlit by the Sun. On its outbound journey, Voyager 2 continued to study Neptune until Oct. 2, 1989.
Aug 25, 2019 · Thirty years ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune, capturing the first close-up images of the blue gas giant. Before this, the eighth planet in our solar system was only known as a...
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Excerpts from an animation showing Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune in 1989. This is an updated version of an earlier visualization that makes use of Voyager's images and discoveries...
