Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ...

Particularly in the case of Neptune, these composites were often made too blue. Early images of Neptune from Voyager 2 were strongly contrast enhanced to better reveal the clouds, bands, and winds ...

Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and ... gaseous giant. 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 ...

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in ...

Space photo of the week: 1st-ever close-up of Neptune is Voyager 2's final portrait of a planet —SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket grounded for the 3rd time in 3 months following 'off-nominal' crash ...

Humanity’s first close-up images from Neptune came 34 years ago from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. The images shows bright cirrus clouds high in its atmosphere above most of its methane.

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