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A mission to Triton and Neptune could unlock their mysteries
One outcome of the Alpbach Summer School this year was an idea for a combined Neptune / Triton explorer mission ... The last time we visited Neptune was with Voyager 2 back in 1989, and it was ...
On this date: Voyager 2 data leads to moon discovery at Uranus
On this date, Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...
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It Would Take A Staggering Amount Of Time To Travel To The Farthest Planet From Earth In Our Solar System
The other big draw of the Neptunian system is its largest moon, Triton, which is interesting for two big reasons. The first is that it may have water. When Voyager 2 flew past in 1989, it saw ...