In terms of mass, if you add up all the satellites of Neptune, Triton composes 99.5% of the mass of everything orbiting Neptune: moons, moonlets, and rings all included.

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 ...

For one, Triton is big. It's the seventh-largest moon in the solar system, and it's over 200 times bigger than all of the other moons of Neptune combined, which makes it really stick out.. Second ...

The stone statue depicts Triton, a fish-tailed god of the sea, according to a Sept. 13 news release from the Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT). Triton was the son and minion of Neptune, who ...

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 ...

For years, scientists have suspected that Triton wasn't part of Neptune's original collection of moons. The massive moon has a backward orbit, and makes up over 99 percent of all the mass orbiting ...

Voyager 2 obtained this parting shot of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, shortly after closest ... More approach to the moon and passage through its shadow on the morning of Aug. 25, 1989.

Triton is also an “irregular” satellite that has an inclined, circular orbit around Neptune. It is highly unlikely that the moon formed in such a configuration and was probably captured from elsewhere ...

This color photo of Neptune's largest moon Triton was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 probe on Aug. 24, 1989, from 330,000 miles away. The resolution is about 6.2 miles, sufficient to begin to show ...

(SPACE.com) 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 ...

Neptune’s Moon Triton Is Destination of Proposed NASA Mission. Scientists at a conference in Houston presented the concept for a flyby mission to study a mysterious moon that may contain an ocean.