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Can a spaceship land on Neptune or will a trip be only a flyby?
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The trip can only be a fly-by.
Neptune is a gas giant. Meaning it has no solid surface. if anything tried to land or walk on Neptune, it would sink into the planet and be incinerated by the molten ammonia core.
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How many satellites probes have been to neptune?
The Voyager I and the Voyager II are the only space probes to visit Neptune. They landed in the 1980s.
What kind of probes have been sent to Neptune?
To date, only one has reached Neptune so far. Voyager 2 did a flyby of Neptune in August 1989, sending images and data back to Earth.
Is there such a thing as a spaceship?
Only in space. A spaceship on land is called a landship and a spaceship in the ocean is, ironically, misnomered a seaship.
What does a flyby do?
Why could voyager to fly past Saturn Uranus and Neptune even know it left earth with only enough energy to reach Jupiter
What is the name of the satellites that have explored Neptune close up?
There have been none. The only direct study of Neptune was done during the flyby of Voyager II in August 1989. It passed within 5000 km of Neptune and relatively close to the moons Nereid and Triton.
What space crafts have observed Neptune?
Neptune was not discovered by spacecraft. The existence of Neptune was predicted on paper by Frenchman Urbain Le Verrier and Englishman John Couch Adams. It was later discovered by telescope by Johann Gottfried Galle in 1846. Voyager 2 did a flyby of Neptune in 1989 and sent images back to Earth. But it did not discover it.
What probe went to Neptune or did a flyby?
So far only one spacecraft has ever flown by Neptune and that was Voyager II in 1989. Neptune is extremely far away from the Sun, and getting there would be highly expensive and take many years to get there, so it doesn't look likely we'll be getting any more Neptune probes soon.
What are some robots that landed on Neptune?
None. Neptune does not have a surface that something could land on. The only exploration of Neptune has been by the space probe Voyager 2, which flew past Neptune in 1989.
Have any satellites or robots explored neptune?
Yes or else how would we know anything about it
Did any space missions visit Neptune did they land or just fly by which ones?
Only one space probe went to or flew by Neptune which was Voyager 2.
What kind of spot does Neptune have?
When Voyager 2 did a flyby of Neptune in 1989, a Great Dark Spot was discovered. The spot was an anticyclonic storm very similar to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. However later Neptune's spot disappeared. It was concluded that the spot was only a temporary storm, unlike Jupiter which has been raging for hundreds of years before it was even discovered. Occasionally new spots appear on Neptune and vanish again hours later. Again, these are anticyclonic storms. Neptune is so far the stormiest planet discovered.
Did the Voyager 2 discover Neptune?
No it did not Galileo discovered it but he thought it was a star then two scientists that I do not recall the name of predicted there was a planet in that region but they always thought it was a star so when they sent Voyager 2 out it was a planet.
