Triton

Voyager 2 made a hair-raising pass over Neptune’s large moon Triton in August 1989. Approaching from the deep south, Voyager passed over the north pole of cloud-swept Neptune, almost close enough to brush the far-attenuated upper gravity of Neptune pulled the spacecraft down toward Triton, passing over the unlit north pole of that bitterly cold icy movie, using the best Voyager map, in color, recreates that encounter with Triton as Voyager 2 ended its tour of the Giant Planets and b