Nereid (moon) - Wikipedia
WEBThe only spacecraft to visit Nereid was Voyager 2, which passed it at a distance of 4,700,000 km (2,900,000 mi) [16] between 20 April and 19 August 1989. [17] Voyager 2 obtained 83 images with observation accuracies of 70 km (43 mi) to 800 km (500 mi). [17]
Nereid - NASA Science
WEBNereid was discovered on May 1, 1949 by Gerard P. Kuiper with a ground-based telescope. It was the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before Voyager 2's discoveries four decades later.
Nereid - NASA Science
WEBJan 29, 1996 · Nereid, the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before Voyager's recent discoveries, was first seen by Gerard Kuiper in 1949. Until this Voyager 2 image was obtained, all that was known about Nereid was its …
Nereid - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
WEBJan 29, 1996 · Nereid, the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before Voyager's recent discoveries, was first seen by Gerard Kuiper in 1949. Until this Voyager 2 image was obtained, all that was known about Nereid was its orbital parameters and …
Voyager 2 - Wikipedia
WEBVoyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory towards the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and enabled further encounters with the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
May 1, 1949: Nereid the Moon of Neptune is Discovered.
WEBOn May 1, 1949, Neptune’s moon Nereid was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. This was the second of 14 moons discovered at Neptune. It was also the last one to be discovered with certainty before NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune in 1989.
Nereid - Universe Today
WEBNereid is the name given to the third largest of Neptune’s moons, and the second to have been discovered … by veteran outer solar system astronomer, Gerard P. Kuiper (guess who the Kuiper Belt is...
30 Years Ago: Voyager 2 Explores Neptune - NASA
WEBAug 26, 2019 · Voyager 2 began to observe Neptune on June 5, 1989, at a distance of 73 million miles. Even at this range, Voyager’s images were already four times better than those obtained by Earth-based telescopes.
Catalog Page for PIA00054 - NASA
WEBNereid, the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before Voyager's recent discoveries, was first seen by Gerard Kuiper in 1949. Until this Voyager 2 image was obtained, all that was known about Nereid was its orbital parameters and intrinsic brightness.
Voyager 2 - Science@NASA
WEBVoyager 2’s encounter with Neptune capped a 4.3 billion-mile (7 billion-kilometer) journey when, on Aug. 25, 1989, at 03:56 UT, it flew about 2,980 miles (4,800 kilometers) over the cloud tops of the giant planet, the closest of its four flybys.