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Keyword: Great Dark Spot
Большое темное пятно Нептуна: пропавшее, но не забытое Neptune's Great Dark Spot: Gone But Not Forgotten
1.12.2001

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by distant Neptune in August of 1989, astronomers were shocked. Since Neptune receives only 3 percent the sunlight Jupiter does, they expected to find a dormant, dark, frigid planet. Instead, the Voyager images revealed evidence of a dynamic and turbulent world.





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