Highlights the twelve-year odyssey of the Voyager spacecraft, and discusses the new findings about Neptune: its atmosphere, satellites, gravitational field, and other surprises, with more than thirty-five photographs from NASA.
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Discusses the physical features and moons of the planet Neptune and how we have gained our knowledge of this giant world.
Examines the physical characteristics and conditions of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, describing their positions in relation to the sun and other planets and surveying humanity's attempts to penetrate their mysteries.
Describes the interiors, surfaces, rings, and moons of Uranus and Neptune; the discovery of Pluto and the Kuiper belt; what is known about Pluto's interior and surface; and also discusses Charon and the Oort cloud.
Unlike all the planets closer to the Sun, known since antiquity, the farthest reaches are the discoveries of the modern world. Uranus was discovered in 1781, Neptune in 1846, Pluto in 1930, the Kuiper belt group of objects in 1992, and though the Oort cloud has been theorized si…