Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in August 1989. The HST took its first pix of Neptune in 2005.
HST took its first pix of Neptune in 2005.
No, Voyager 2 is not the only spacecraft to study Neptune. The Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory have also observed Neptune. Additionally, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe studied Neptune's moon Triton.
Hubble has never "explored" Neptune. It is a telescope in orbit round Earth and from Earth it has "imaged" Neptune. It has done this several times eg 1996 and 1998 (there may be more times!).
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Justin Bieber explored Neptune with Ariel, the mermaid. Then, they went to go see a movie together, and soon, Ariel's mom came to hate Justin Bieber and killed him. Poor JB! Dx
The Hubble space Telescope
2005
1) The Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. 2) The Hubble Space telescope. 3) Earth based methods, especially spectroscopy.
No, the Hubble Space Telescope did not discover Neptune. Neptune was first observed in 1846 by the astronomer Johann Galle using mathematical predictions made by Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and has contributed significantly to our understanding of the universe through its observations.
Never. The Hubble telescope has never left orbit around Earth.
Exploring Neptune has only just begun, with only one explorer, Voyager 2, which visited on August 25, 1989. The possibility of a Neptune Orbiter was discussed, apart from that no other missions have been given serious thought
The storm that disappeared on Neptune is known as the Great Dark Spot. It was a massive dark storm system resembling Jupiter's Great Red Spot. It was observed in the late 1980s by the Voyager 2 spacecraft but had disappeared by the time the Hubble Space Telescope imaged Neptune in the 1990s.