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 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.
and the Voyager 2 spacecraft (right). The Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 image of Neptune, taken in Sept. and Nov. 2018, shows a new dark storm (top center). In the Voyager image, a storm known as the ...
The recently launched super space telescope James Webb has returned spectacular new imagery of Neptune ... not seen in such detail since the Voyager 2 probe flew past the planet in 1989.
Since then, the planet has only been visited once by spacecraft when, in 1989, Voyager 2 completed its 'Grand Tour' of our solar system's outermost planets. It took this image of Neptune and its moon ...
Humanity’s first close-up images from Neptune came 34 years ago from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ... of Neptune from the Keck Observatory taken from 2002 to 2022, the Hubble Space Telescope ...