In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by ...

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.

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 ...

21, 2022, shows three side-by-side images of Neptune. From left, a photo of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 in 1989, Hubble in 2021, and Webb in 2022. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

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 Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments apiece to study the sun's protective bubble and the swath of space beyond. Voyager 1 ...