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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-21 Neptune Hubble Space Telescope
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Using powerful ground-and space-based NASA telescopes, scientists have obtained a moving look at some of the wildest, weirdest weather in the solar system.
PIA01542:
Neptune's Stormy Disposition
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2's post-encounter view of Neptune's south pole as the spacecraft sped away on a southward trajectory.
PIA01539:
Post-encounter View of Neptune's South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Triton Voyager
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This color photo of Neptune's large satellite Triton was obtained on Aug. 24 1989. In reality, there is no part of Triton that would appear blue to the eye. The bright southern hemisphere of Triton, which fills most of this frame, is generally pink.
PIA01536:
Detail of Triton's Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Triton Voyager
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Part of the complex geologic history of icy Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, is shown in this NASA Voyager 2 photo. The photo was received as part of a Triton-mapping sequence in 1989.
PIA01538:
Complex Geologic History of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 Triton Voyager
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This image of Triton was taken on Aug. 25 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2. The image was received at JPL four hours later at about 4:20 a.m. The smallest detail that can be seen is about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) across.
PIA01537:
Triton Faults
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-03 2000x2445x3
This is an updated montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
PIA01341:
Solar System Montage (Updated)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Neptune Voyager
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In Neptune's outermost ring, 39,000 miles out, material mysteriously clumps into three arcs. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989.
PIA01493:
Neptune's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Neptune Voyager
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The image of Neptune shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge; on the west limb the fast moving bright feature called Scooter and the little dark spot are visible in this image obtaind by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA01492:
Neptune Full Disk View
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Neptune Voyager
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This image was returned by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 3, 1989. The planet and its largest satellite, Triton, are captured in view; Triton appears in the lower right corner at about 5 o'clock relative to Neptune.
PIA01491:
Neptune and Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Neptune Hubble Space Telescope
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This image was returned by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 3, 1989. The planet and its largest satellite, Triton, are captured in view; Triton appears in the lower right corner at about 5 o'clock relative to Neptune.
PIA01287:
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 Observations of Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Neptune Hubble Space Telescope
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In 1995, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered a new great dark spot, located in the northern hemisphere of the planet Neptune. Because the planet's northern hemisphere was tilted away from Earth, the new feature appeared near the limb of the planet.
PIA01286:
Hubble Finds New Dark Spot on Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Neptune Hubble Space Telescope
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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope views of the blue-green planet Neptune provide three snapshots of changing weather conditions. The images were taken in 1994 on 3 separate days when Neptune was 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from Earth.
PIA01285:
Hubble's View of Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-02 Neptune Hubble Space Telescope
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These two NASA Hubble Space Telescope images provide views of weather on opposite hemispheres of Neptune. Taken Aug. 13, 1996; these composite images blend information from different wavelengths to bring out features of Neptune's blustery weather.
PIA01284:
Neptune in Primary Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Triton Voyager
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This polar projection from NASA's Voyager 2 of Triton's southern hemisphere provides a view of the southern polar cap and bright equatorial fringe. The margin of the cap is scalloped, bright fringe probably consists of very fresh nitrogen frost or snow.
PIA00423:
Triton's Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Triton Voyager
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This composite view from NASA's Voyager 2 shows Neptune on Triton's horizon. The foreground in this computer generated view of Triton's maria as they would appear from a point approximately 45 km above the surface.
PIA00344:
Neptune on Triton's Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Triton Voyager
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This computer generated montage created from images obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton, Neptune's largest moon at 2706 km (1683 mi) in diameter.
PIA00340:
Montage of Neptune and Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Triton Voyager
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This color image from NASA's Voyager 2 was reconstructed by making a computer composite of three black and white images taken through red, green, and blue filters. Details on Triton's surface unfold dramatically in this sequence of approach images.
PIA00329:
Color Sequence of Triton Approach Images
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Triton Voyager
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This global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2 shows Triton, the largest satellite of Neptune. Triton has the coldest surface known anywhere in the solar system; it is so cold that most of Triton's nitrogen is condensed as frost.
PIA00317:
Global Color Mosaic of Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-01-08 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune was reconstructed from two images taken by NASA's Voyager 2. At the north (top) is the Great Dark Spot.
PIA00049:
Neptune - Great Dark Spot, Scooter, Dark Spot 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-01-08 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune was reconstructed from two images taken by NASA's Voyager 2. At the north (top) is the Great Dark Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that undergo rapid changes in appearance.
PIA01142:
Neptune Scooter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-15 1930x2440x3
This is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Included are (from top to bottom) images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
PIA00545:
Solar System Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Triton Voyager
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This image of the south polar terrain of Triton, taken NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1989 reveals about 50 dark plumes or 'wind streaks' on the icy surface.
PIA00060:
Triton - False Color of 'Cantaloupe' Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Triton Voyager
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This image from NASA's Voyager 2 of the south polar terrain of Triton, was taken on Aug. 25, 1989 revealing about 50 dark plumes or 'wind streaks' on the icy surface.
PIA00059:
Triton South Polar Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Triton Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 acquired this black and white image of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, during the night of Aug. 24-25, 1989. Triton's limb cuts obliquely across the middle of the image. The field of view is about 1,000 km (600 miles) across.
PIA00056:
Triton - Detail of Dark and Light Material
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Earth Voyager
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These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1, which was more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic.
PIA00453:
Solar System Portrait - Views of 6 Planets
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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The cameras of Voyager 1 on Feb. 14, 1990, pointed back toward the sun and took a series of pictures of the sun and the planets, making the first ever 'portrait' of our solar system as seen from the outside.
PIA00451:
Solar System Portrait - 60 Frame Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Uranus Voyager
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This view of pale blue-green Uranus was recorded by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet behind. The thin crescent of Uranus is seen here between the spacecraft, the planet and the Sun.
PIA00143:
Uranus - Final Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This image of the blue-hued Neptune was taken by NASA's Voyager 2; small trails of similar clouds trending east to west and large scale structure east of the Great Dark Spot all suggest that waves are present in the atmosphere and play a large role.
PIA00063:
Neptune - True Color of Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 captured this high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, providing obvious evidence of vertical relief in Neptune's bright cloud streaks.
PIA00058:
Neptune Clouds Showing Vertical Relief
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This false color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken through three filters: blue, green, and a filter that passes light at a wavelength that is absorbed by methane gas.
PIA00057:
Neptune False Color Image of Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the atmosphere are blue, while those at higher altitudes are white. The image was taken by Voyager 2's wide-angle camera through an orange filter and two different methane filters.
PIA00051:
Neptune in False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune's southern hemisphere was taken by the narrow-angle camera on NASA's Voyager 2 when the spacecraft was 4.2 million km (2.6 million miles) from the planet.
PIA00050:
Neptune's Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This image of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere is the first that tests the accuracy of the weather forecast that was made eight days earlier to select targets for NASA's Voyager narrow angle camera.
PIA00048:
Neptune - Great Dark Spot and Scooter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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During August 16 and 17, 1989, the Voyager 2 narrow-angle camera was used to photograph Neptune almost continuously, recording approximately two and one-half rotations of the planet.
PIA00046:
Neptune Full Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This bulls-eye view of Neptune's small dark spot (D2) was obtained by NASA' s Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 24, 1989, when Voyager 2 was within 1.1 million km (680,000 miles) of the planet.
PIA00064:
Neptune's Dark Spot (D2) at High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Triton Voyager
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This is one of the most detailed views of the surface of Triton taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on its flyby of the large satellite of Neptune early in the morning of Aug. 25, 1989. The picture was stored on the tape recorder and relayed to Earth later.
PIA00061:
Triton High Resolution View of Northern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This image of Neptune's satellite 1989N1 was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1989 from a range of 146,000 kilometers (91,000 miles).
PIA00062:
1989N1 Surface Detail
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 N Rings Voyager
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In this image from NASA's Voyager wide-angle image taken on Aug. 23 1989, the two main rings of Neptune can be clearly seen. In the lower part of the frame the originally announced ring arc, consisting of three distinct features, is visible.
PIA00053:
Neptune Rings and 1989N2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Nereid Voyager
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Nereid, the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before NASA's Voyager's discoveries in 1989, was first seen by Gerard Kuiper in 1949.
PIA00054:
Nereid
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this image of Neptune's irregularly-shaped satellite 1989N1 from a range of 870,000 kilometers (540,000 miles).
PIA00055:
1989N1
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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The bright cirrus-like clouds of Neptune change rapidly, often forming and dissipating over periods of several to tens of hours as seen in this sequence spanning two rotations of Neptune (about 36 hours) by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA00047:
Neptune - Changes in Great Dark Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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These images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 show changes in the clouds around Neptune's Great Dark Spot (GDS) over a four and one-half-day period. From top to bottom the images show successive rotations of the planet an interval of about 18 hours.
PIA00045:
Neptune - Changes in Great Dark Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1989-10-27 Triton Voyager
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These three sequential images of an erupting volcano on Neptune's large moon Triton were taken by NASA's Voyager 2 as the spacecraft approach the moon on Aug. 26, 1989.
PIA14449:
Triton's Volcanic Plumes
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Add Image to Favorite List 1989-10-02 Triton Voyager
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A several-kilometers-tall, geyser-like eruption of dark material is seen shooting almost straight up from the surface of Neptune's moon, Triton, in this NASA Voyager 2 image, acquired on Aug. 24, 1989, from a distance of 99,920 kilometers.
PIA14448:
Triton's Dark Plume
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