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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 has shared 7 stunning Neptune photos, highlighting its vibrant clouds, the Great Dark Spot, and its moons, revealing the planet’s breathtaking beauty.

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 ...

Take a look at some of these beautiful images. This computer generated montage created from images obtained by NASA Voyager 2 shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton.

On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune. This one — among the last full-disk photos taken before the probe ended its "Grand Tour" of the ...

This figure shows the original Voyager 2 images, with Neptune in deep, high-contrast blue, and the actual appearance of the two ice giants. Patrick Irwin . Ice Giants Show Their True Colors At Last.

In honor of Voyager 2’s encounter with Neptune, Paul Schenk at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston has “restored” the images that the spacecraft took of Neptune’s moon Triton, and ...

Why Voyager 2 struggled at Neptune Neptune receives only about 0.001 times the amount of sunlight that Earth does. In such a low-light environment, Voyager 2’s camera had to take long exposure ...

Voyager 2 captured images of each planet in separate colors, and the single-color images were combined to create composites. The images of Neptune were enhanced to show the white clouds and winds ...

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 ...

See amazing photos of the planet Neptune, eighth planet from the sun. Skip to main content. ... This image of Neptune was taken by Voyager 2's wide-angle camera when the spacecraft was 590,000 km ...