Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune’s largest moon still remains a mystery.A flyby by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989 offered a ...

Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune’s largest moon still remains a mystery.

And Triton is not the only outlier at Neptune. Nereid, one of the planet's outermost moons and the third largest, has one of the most stretched out, or eccentric, orbits of any moon in our solar ...

(SPACE.com) Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune's largest moon still remains a mystery.

This is its diary entry from after the Neptune and Triton encounter, as the probe began its trip out of the Solar System: Star Date -1.259 (1990) Today I am filled with an intense sorrow.

Scientists have restored images of Neptune’s moon Triton taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lunar & Planetary Institute) By Amina Khan Staff Writer .

Of Neptune's 13 moons, Triton is by far the largest, and, at 2700 kilometres in diameter (or three quarters the Earth's Moon), is the seventh largest moon in the whole Solar System.

Neptune's largest moon, Triton, was originally a member of a duo orbiting the Sun and was kidnapped in a close encounter with Neptune, a new model suggests. Skip to main content.

NASA has proposed a mission to explore Neptune’s mysterious and “weird” moon Triton, the coldest known object in the solar system. In a statement posted to its website, the space agency said ...

Neptune’s large moon Triton may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual orbit around Neptune. Triton is unique among all the large moons in the solar system because it orbits ...

Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune’s largest moon still remains a mystery. A flyby by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989 offered a ...