Neptune From Triton
by David A. Hardy, Futures: 50 Years In Space/science Photo Library
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Neptune From Triton
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David A. Hardy, Futures: 50 Years In Space/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Neptune from Triton. Artwork of the planet Neptune from Triton, its largest moon. Although Triton is extremely cold, the Voyager 2 spacecraft found it to be an geologically active world. Huge geysers erupt periodically. These shoot liquid nitrogen high into the air, where it is caught by strong high-altitude winds and blown horizontally for hundreds of kilometres. Triton is 2700 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Neptune at a distance of 350,000 kilometres in just under six days.
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February 23rd, 2021
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