The Voyager encounter with Uranus and Neptune

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Oct 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986joat.conf..238m&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Inst. for Space Studies The Jovian Atmospheres p 238-246 (SEE N87-17598 09-91)

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Neptune Atmosphere, Uranus Atmosphere, Voyager Project, Interplanetary Trajectories, Space Exploration

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Voyager 2 approaches Uranus at a relative low phase angle and high southerly latitude. Only when the spacecraft is very close to Uranus does the geometry change appreciably. Most of the important observations occur within six hours of closest approach. Voyager flies through an Earth and solar occulation zone and leaves Uranus at a relatively high phase angle of about 145 degrees. There isn't much of an opportunity to look at the equatorial region of the planet. At Neptune, on the other hand, the approach is more nearly equatorial (about 35 deg S lat). Voyager 2 will come much closer to Nepture than to any of the other gas giants as it skims within about 2000 km of Neptune's cloudtops. It will pass through earth and solar occultation zones at both Neptune and its satellite, Triton. Again, Voyager 2 will leave Neptune at about 35 deg S latitude. Voyager operational instrument, interplanetary trajectories and planetary encounters are briefly discussed.

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