Voyager 2 got within 50,600 miles of Uranus during its flyby. This photograph of Neptune was taken at a range of 4.4 million miles on August 20, 1989, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach.
“The Voyager 2 flyby lasted just five days ... Things we don’t know about Uranus (and Neptune) “A future mission to Uranus is critical in collecting the scientific measurements to answer some of the ...
Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed ... such as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Magnetospheres are the ...
According to the study, these conditions likely only existed around the time of the flyby. ASTRONOMERS REVEAL WHAT URANUS AND NEPTUNE REALLY LOOK LIKE Voyager 2 project scientist Linda Spilker ...
The perception of Neptune as much darker and bluer than Uranus was "cemented" when pictures were sent back by the Voyager 2 probe after it flew by the two planets in 1986 and 1989, said The Times.
The US space agency's New Horizons probe has made contact with Earth to confirm its successful flyby ... more than 2 billion km further out than the eighth of the classical planets, Neptune ...
US-based space agency NASA has announced that its James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest view of Neptune ... Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Neptune during its flyby ...
The US space agency's New Horizons probe has made contact with Earth to confirm its successful flyby ... more than 2 billion km further out than the eighth of the classical planets, Neptune ...