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

Tags:

• NASA
• JPL
• Jim Blinn
• Sylvie Rueff
• Neptune
• Voyager 2
• Triton
• animation
• Don Davis

[planetaryprobes]

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

[MusicalFan1701]

@Pastafreak4

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!

[Thermagicalwonders]

Whateer happened to Lost In Space?

[bozwell1232]

i didn't go past it went on

[lgalicki]

It would be awesome if we could, somehow, travel to these alien places ourselves and see everything directly with our own eyes!

Last night I saw Neptune through my telescope for the first time! It was nothing but a pale blue dot, still the emotion of seeing the farthest planet in our solar system with my own eyes was enormous!

[herbal1971]

It's damn cold out there.

[BARELPORTILLO]

OSU QUE LENHO ETTA ! madreeee...

[brostraid]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing!

[jmm1233]

this is awesome , going to post tribute to voyagers to this

[TMtricks]

when voyager 2 will come to pluto ?

[KarbineKyle]

Triton is my favorite moon! It's been known to be the coldest moon in Sol, and it's geologically active, with cryovolcanoes of liquid nitrogen. It has winds, yet the atmosphere is sparse. It's summer in the southern hemisphere now. It also has a retrograde orbit for the largest major moon. We need an orbiter to study Uranus and Neptune, like Cassini. It should come equipped with a probe. A balloon probe to float above the surface of Triton would be awesome! Triton is beautiful and so mysterious!

[planetaryprobes]

@sylvietou Thank you for the correction, and I have duly updated the description of this and the other Neptune animation. Congratulations on having produced such a wonderful visualization that helped to inspire my life-long interest in planetary exploration.