Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme

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1. Story
2. Voyager 2 passed close over Neptune's northern hemisphere and was bent south towards Triton, the encounter's real objective. Neptune showed a large dark storm and extremely fast winds; Triton showed a young surface at about 38 kelvin with dark plumes streaking downwind. Twelve years and four planets after launch, the planetary phase of the programme ended here, and everything since has been measurement of the medium rather than of an object.
3. Knowledge
4. Voyager 2
5. Neptune
6. Triton
7. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
8. Connections
9. Voyager 2
10. Neptune
11. Triton
12. Voyager 1
13. The Grand Tour alignment
14. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
15. DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
16. Gravity assist
17. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
18. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
19. Jupiter
20. Neptune
21. Saturn
22. Uranus
23. Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS)
24. Titan IIIE-Centaur
25. Edward C. Stone
26. The Voyager Golden Record
27. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
28. Voyager 2 launches
29. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
30. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
31. Voyager 2 reaches Uranus — the only close encounter ever made
32. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
33. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
34. Voyager 2 crosses the heliopause at 119 AU
35. Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument is switched off
36. The "Big Bang" power manoeuvre on Voyager 2
37. Voyager 2
38. Triton
39. The Grand Tour alignment
40. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
41. Neptune
42. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
43. Evidence
44. The Voyager 2 imaging results for the Neptune system, including the dark storm system in Neptune's atmosphere and Triton's sparsely cratered surface, plumes and surface temperature of about 38 K. V55 verification basis: NOT CHECKED IN THIS RUN; volume and title are given from standard citation practice and require confirmation.
45. The encounter dates and principal findings at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, including the Jovian ring, the resolved ring structure at Saturn, the tilted and offset Uranian magnetic field and the newly found moons at both ice giants. V55 verification basis: THE PAGES WERE NOT REACHED — science.nasa.gov is blocked by this session's egress proxy and the search budget was exhausted. Everything attributed here is standard mission record from general knowledge; a curator must confirm each encounter date and each count of newly discovered moons against NASA's own pages.