Voyager 2 spacecraft image of the planet Neptune, taken between August 16 & 17, 1989, as the spacecraft approached its pass to within 5,000km of Neptu

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Voyager 2 spacecraft image of the planet Neptune, taken between August 16 & 17, 1989, as the spacecraft approached its pass to within 5,000km of Neptune's north pole. This virtually true-colour image shows two prominent cloud features of Neptune's highly active weather system. At left is the Great Dark Spot, a giant storm system located at a latitude of 22 degrees south that circuits the planet every hours. The bright clouds below & to its right were found to change appearance in periods as short as four hours. A second, smaller dark spot (bottom right) circuits the planet every hours.

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Size: 4685px × 3776px
Photo credit: © NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: abnormal, astronomy, cosmology, imagery, neptune, planet, planetary, science, unhealthy, voyager