Voyager 2's 'Hair-Raising' Fly-By Of Triton Animated

Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 18:10 in Astronomy & Space

The probe passed within 25,000 miles (40,000 km) of the Neptune moon in August 1989. Highly detailed maps from Voyager were used to recreate the surface colors.

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