Voyager 2 flyby Animation - Neptune and Triton (1989)

The full version of an animation showing Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune in 1989.

- Credit:
NASA/JPL/Caltech. Sylvie Rueff, a member of the CGL at JPL, worked with Voyager Mission Planning to produce this and other Voyager Neptune animations. Textures by Don Davis.

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Ian Regan]

It's by Queen: "Track 13" from the album "Made In Heaven"

[MusicalFan1701]

You are a scientific illiterate.

[cheomire]

if only we got our shit together here on this planet, we could be out there! visiting those places, but nooo. we have to bail out banks, and start wars!

[Roncace]

to think it took voyager 2 twelve years to get to neptune

[Simon Garrett]

plus it's not 'fake' - it's an animation depicting what the Voyager spacecraft actually did, where and how it encountered Neptune.

[Simon Garrett]

try to understand the logistics and distances involved - even with today's technologies sending actual 'video' back from a spacecraft that far away takes an incredible amount of time and energy as well as utilizing technologies that didn't even exist when these missions launched in the late 70's.

[rufatnarmean111]

I want real video not animation Fake Fake Fake stop this Hollywood.Bad quality video but i need real!!!

[rufatnarmean111]

Agree.I understood that's i can give my life only to see Sunrise on Mars or Other planet...

[AppleBased]

0:42 Ganymede! Are you cheating on Jupiter?

[MrDGawesome]

sizes are wrong

[Direwolf56]

A manned tour of the solar system is not a feat any one country can afford, it would take global financial support.

[Thermagicalwonders]

Whateer happened to Lost In Space?

[bozwell1232]

i didn't go past it went on