Neptune (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Neptune

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This Voyager 2 image of Neptune shows a cold and dark wind-whipped world. In 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to observe the planet Neptune, passing about 3,000 miles above the planet's north pole.

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