Triton
node
Neptune's largest moon, and the object the Neptune encounter was actually shaped around. It orbits backwards relative to Neptune's rotation, which is the signature of a captured body rather than one formed in place, and it is extraordinarily cold — Voyager 2 measured a surface temperature of about 38 kelvin, the coldest directly measured anywhere in the solar system at the time. Against that expectation of a frozen dead surface, the images showed a young, sparsely cratered terrain and dark plumes rising several kilometres and streaking downwind, apparently nitrogen driven by seasonal solar heating. It remains the only close look anyone has had at a large captured Kuiper-belt object. Not a place on Earth.
A node is not a place. Drawing it on a map would assert something about the world that no stored fact supports.
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Evidence · 2
Timeline
No dated observations are stored for this object. Atlas shows what was observed and when — it does not infer a history.
Connections · 1
- Neptunepart_of
Assembled narrative · 1
An assembled narrative is available for this object.
Observed changes · 0
No public Signals are attached to this object. Signals show what changed and when it was observed — never a direction or a rank.
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