Voyager 2 and Neptune. Computer artwork of the Voyager 2 spacecraft approaching the planet Neptune. Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on 20t


Voyager 2 and Neptune. Computer artwork of the Voyager 2 spacecraft approaching the planet Neptune. Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on 20th August 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. It's closest approach to Neptune occurred on 25th August 1989. It is still the only spacecraft to have visited the two outer giant planets Uranus and Neptune.


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Photo credit: © CARLOS CLARIVAN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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