At a Glance
Neptune: Media
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Videos
Voyager 2 arriving at Neptune after a 12-year journey, August 25, 1989.
Video: NASA/JPL
Images
A photograph of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere, taken by Voyager 2 in August 1989....
NASA/JPL
Animation of Neptune's Great Dark Spot, based on still images taken by Voyager 2...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00045)
Great Dark Spot on Neptune, captured by a narrow-angle camera aboard Voyager 2, 1999.
NASA/JPL
Clouds in Neptune's northern hemisphere, as observed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft...
NASA/JPL/Caltech
Image of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, captured by a camera aboard Voyager...
NASA/JPL
Neptune's ring system, captured by Voyager 2 in two long-exposure backlit images...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Part of Neptune's rings showing three arcs (Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité), photographed...
NASA/JPL
Ariel (white dot) and its shadow (black dot) crossing the face of Uranus in an image...
NASA, ESA, L. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison), H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), and K. Rages (SETI)
Views of Neptune taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1996, 1998, and 2002, showing...
NASA, L. Stromovsky, and P. Fry (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Clouds appear in Neptune's dynamic atmosphere in an image captured by Voyager 2 in...
NASA/JPL
Dark spot in the northern hemisphere of Neptune, as observed by the Hubble Space...
Photo AURA/STScI/NASA/JPL (NASA photo # PIA01286, STScI-PRC95-21b)
The eight planets of the solar system and Pluto, in a montage of images scaled to...
NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
The planets (in comparative size) in order of distance from the Sun.
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Voyager 2 image of Triton. This 14-frame composite image shows the satellite's near-equatorial...
NASA/JPL
The orbits of the planets and other bodies of the solar system.
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Interactives
Explore the planets of the solar system with this 3D interactive.
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