
Credit: NASA, Voyager Project
Explanation: In August of 1989 NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft passed by Neptune,
the most distant of the solar system's gas giant planets. Its encounter with
Neptune climaxed with its closest approach to Neptune's largest moon Triton.
From a distance of about 24,000 miles the robot space probe surveyed Triton's
surface, whose temperature averages nearly -400 degrees Fahrenheit, and discovered
surprising evidence of a complex and active world. For example, the prominent
dark streaks in this image seem to come from small volcanoes and may consist
of nitrogen frost mixed with organic compounds ejected during geyser-like
eruption