This picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera. The images were taken at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. The picture 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. These clouds were seen to persist for as long as Voyager’s cameras could resolve them. North of these, a bright cloud band similar to the south polar streak may be seen. Years later, when the Hubble telescope was focused on the planet, these atmospheric features had changed, indicating that Neptune’s atmosphere is dynamic. The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA’s Office of Space Science and Applications, Washington, DC. 

Date: 
04/02/1990 
NASA Center: 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
Subject Category: 
Voyager-Galileo 
Subject Category: 
Planet-Neptune 
Keywords: 
Laboratory 
Keywords: 
Jet 
Keywords: 
Propulsion 
Keywords: 
JPL 
Keywords: 
2 
Keywords: 
Voyager 
Keywords: 
Neptune 
Audience: 
General Public 
facet_what: 
FAST 
facet_what: 
Polar 
facet_what: 
Galileo 
facet_what: 
Voyager 
facet_what: 
Neptune 
facet_what: 
Voyager 2 
facet_where: 
Washington 
facet_where: 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
facet_where: 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) 
facet_when: 
04-02-1990 
facet_when_year: 
1990 
Image #: 
PIA01492 
orignial url: 
http://grin.hq.nasa… 
UID: 
SPD-GRIN-GPN-2000-00 0443 
Center: 
JPL 
Center Number: 
PIA01492 
GRIN DataBase Number: 
GPN-2000-000443 
Creator-Photographer: 
NASA 
Original Source: 
DIGITAL 
Image ID: 
127349 
Resolution Size: 
5 
Format: 
JP2 
Media Type: 
Image 
File Name: 
GPN-2000-000443.jp2 
Width: 
2188 
Height: 
2185

Tags: galaxy, nasa, Neptune Full Disk View, photo, space, star, Universe

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