By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet's rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets in our ...

Special Features: By far the largest moon of Neptune, and one of the coldest objects in the solar system. Voyager 2 discovered that part of Triton's surface resembles the rind of a cantaloupe.

For the first time in history, we now have real, high-resolution images of Neptune that go beyond artist impressions and telescope visuals. Captured by advanced space telescopes and spacecraft ...

Several features, including the fainter Dark Spot 2 and the South Polar Feature, are locked to the planet’s rotation, which allowed Karkoschka to precisely determine how long a day lasts on Neptune.

Large spots are common features in the atmospheres of giant planets, the most famous being Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. A dark spot was first discovered on Neptune by Nasa’s Voyager 2 in 1989 ...

But Neptune is made mostly of thick clouds of gas, so it has no visible surface. The only visible features are storms, the apparent motion of which results from a mixture of the planet's rotation ...

The Hubble telescope has discovered a 'dark vortex' raging on Neptune that would swallow 20% of Earth's surface By Dave Mosher A photo of planet Neptune by Voyager 2 in 1989.

This composite shows thermal images of Neptune taken between 2006 and 2020. The first three images ...More (2006, 2009, 2018) were taken with the VISIR instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope ...

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 surface of Neptune's moon Triton is so cold, the ground is made of frozen nitrogen. ... And with Neptune appearing 10 times larger than our moon, you would be able to clearly see its features.

Neptune’s moon Triton shows tantalizing evidence of water beneath its jumbled crust, ... shows the moon’s surface down to features about 1,970 feet (600 m) across.