When Neptune got its stunning close-up: The Voyager 2 flyby, 30 years later. Thirty years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune, capturing the first close-up images of the blue gas giant.

August 25, 2014 marks a quarter a century since Voyager 2’s flyby of Neptune and Triton, the last major accomplishment of the probe before continuing on to deep space.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the first-ever flyby of Neptune on Aug. 25, 1989, zipping by the "ice giant" and its frigid moon Triton in quick succession. The historic encounter gave a face to ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager's historic footage of Triton has been "restored ...

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 ...

Proposed NASA flyby mission to Neptune’s Moon of Triton could get the go-ahead by next summer. It would map what Voyager 2 wasn’t able and astronomers a fresh new look at the solar system’s ...

1989: Twelve years and one day after liftoff, Voyager 2 reaches Triton, the largest of Neptune’s eight moons and the coldest, most unusual satellite in our solar system. Launched from Cape ...

Neptune and Triton (smaller crescent) three days after Voyager's 1989 flyby. ( NASA/JPL) SCIENCE; NO PLACE LIKE HOME; Mission to Pluto Is Like a Next-Gen Voyager. By Nadia Drake. August 26, 2014 ...

Newly released images commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the Voyager flyby of Neptune’s moon Triton on Aug. 24, 2009. Triton was the last solid object visited by NASA’s Voyager 2 […] ...

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 fuzzy ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up glimpse of Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager’s historic footage of Triton has been ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager’s historic footage of Triton has […] ...