The Closest Images Ever Taken of Neptune in 4K

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What are the closest images ever taken of the planet Neptune? Although only one spacecraft has ever visited the distant ice giant, Voyager 2, it still managed to capture some stunning images, as it flew by just above its cloud tops. Coming closer than any other spacecraft in history. Revealing what the most distant major planet in the solar system looks like up close and personal. So much of this ice giant is still a mystery. But by using the stunning images captured by Voyager 2, we can peel back the layers of this mysterious world and take a closer look at its fascinating features like never before. So, what did we see?
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[@V101SPACE]

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[@ellisonhamilton3322]

I see that you have reached and passed 900 thousand subscribers. Awesome! Congratulations!! 👍

[@V101SPACE]

Thanks Ellison. Yep, on the path to 1 million now! 😊 Rob

[@XXPYR0XX]

1:24 its not nepchewune its neptune

[@Axithilia]

Really wish I will live long enough to see us visit Neptune again

[@MarkWhich]

i don't think any of us will be visiting, an unmaned spacecraft might.

[@Axithilia]

@@MarkWhich Yes that's what I meant

[@zander8129]

its only when all the the planets line up again, maybe next year

[@Axithilia]

@@zander8129 Well, as far as I koow there wasn't any space craft that is being worked on or already launched designated to reach Neptune, and it took about 12 years for Voyager 2 to reach that

[@ajax1812]

​@@Axithilia maybe if governments stop being scrooges we could

[@automatonm99]

Cant look at Neptune without thinking about the movie Event Horizon.

[@MarkHower-ne5zc]

I'd like to see the nearly half hour that was cut when the film was completed. Apparently it was considered to be too intense for test audiences. It may have ended up with an NC-17 rating otherwise. Maybe it will show up one day!

[@lucasirvine4194]

That's a Great movie

[@Tomfoolery1972]

Thinking about the incredibly precise calculations that made this all possible... it seems inconsprehensible, almost impossible that this mission went so well... especially with 1970s technology 🤯

[@David-cv1se]

🤡👆

[@FrankDeleon-fe8cu]

Makes u think about how our technology is supposedly so advance.

[@positronikiss]

? Teh fk is ur issue ?! ​@@David-cv1se

[@trent7736]

It only seems incomprehensible if you suck at mathematics

[@Bootifulbouncybodacious]

@@trent7736u don’t even know ur times tables lil bro

[@sheilasmith7991]

I wish we could visit Neptune again. It's a fascinating plant.

[@ellisonhamilton3322]

Since childhood Neptune has fired my imagination. To be honest it has as much to do with it's beautiful blue color as with anything. We are overdue to visit this mysterious world again. Thanks. Hope you and Rolo are doing well. Greetings from Kansas. 🇺🇸❤🇬🇧

[@Gabe94dotcom]

Me too ❤

[@eoinm5758]

Me too I had a magazine that was collected every month can't remember what it was called but neptune really captured my imagination more than any other planet

[@ellisonhamilton3322]

@@eoinm5758 I worked as a child so I had a little money....a little. Beginning about the age of 10 I began buying SKY AND TELESCOPE every month and did so for about the next 25 years. Some of the best images of Neptune were highlighted in that magazine at times along with the other planets. It's deep blue ( false ) color really captured my imagination.

[@phineascromwell]

Its actually not blue, in the way it has long been depicted. It looks like Uranus... more greenish.

[@mistertor]

I remember trying to stay up all night to watch the PBS broadcast that shared the images as they were being downloaded by NASA in real time. I'm sure I dozed off a time or two, but it was so much fun!

[@V101SPACE]

What an amazing experience, knowing that up until that moment no one knew what Neptune looked like up close. Thanks for the comment! V

[@David-cv1se]

Easily indoctrinated 👆

[@Keyzer93]

​@@David-cv1se ok loser

[@rodrigosampaio1560]

@@David-cv1se Flerfer detected

[@colonelkurtz2269]

Im going to Neptune next week and bringing my camera, so I'll keep you posted. 🚀 👨‍🚀 🔵

[@heels-villeshoerepairs8613]

Wow, it appears that you are actually speaking, instead of those ridiculous computer narrations. Nice.

[@seanroche2358]

Thanks for mentioning this,everytime I hear that computer voice I just don’t watch

[@heels-villeshoerepairs8613]

@seanroche2358 yes, crap really, aren't they?! It amazes me that someone would go to so much trouble when all they have to do is open their mouths. Must have low self-esteem.

[@AriAhokas]

Too bad this i an AI voice too…😮

[@djmastergroove946]

It always amazes me how they get the timing and speed trajectory to catapult the spacecraft right on point. Using Jupiter as a slingshot. The timing has got to be absolutely bang on. Incredible 👍

[@user-vb5zl3oe3h]

Im fascinated with Neptune and Jupiter. I've always felt a strong connection since I was a child, especially to Neptune.

[@cointenderrarities933]

In comes WEB to discover Neptune has a faint ring around it!

[@SpaceCuriosity2]

Fantastic video, Neptune is one of my favorite...❤. I truly love these distant worlds and imagine living there. I made a video about Titan instead😊

[@DajjSbdf]

Yes really wonderful worlds

[@davidemartinelli2173]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@petterlarsson7257]

bad

[@AndrewGrey22]

You would hate living there.

[@psyclotronxx3083]

It's boring

[@IanPendleton-gh6ox]

Thank you for uploading all these fascinating videos, they're always a treat to watch.

[@paulcateiii]

nice work - thanks Rob - congrats on hitting 900 k subscribers

[@porscheguy19]

Why is everyone all of a sudden saying that Neptune is not blue... but a greenish-grey? I've seen Neptune with my own eyes through my own telescope. It's blue. And Uranus is a sort of aqua-green. Neptune certainly is blue.

[@x13xmonkey]

Nobody is going to live long enough , so no worries.

[@interestinggameraltlol9245]

NASA’s voyager telescope had an exaggerated color camera, so storms on the planet would be visible. In reality, its color is actually similar to Uranus. Plus, aren’t you pretty far from Neptune? The color would of course be different than from Low Neptune Orbit…

[@nasis18]

Uranus is beautiful.

[@alexandercarder2281]

Yes and also I watched Mr Slavs latest video of a mysterious disease that wiped out half of London called the sweating disease. Maybe I’m going mad but I’m from the UK and have a deep interest in history and never once in all my 41 years have I ever heard of a sweating disease that wiped out half of London in 1551.

[@alexandercarder2281]

Yes and also I watched Mr Slavs latest video of a mysterious disease that wiped out half of London called the sweating disease. Maybe I’m going mad but I’m from the UK and have a deep interest in history and never once in all my 41 years have I ever heard of a sweating disease that wiped out half of London in 1551. I’m becoming more and more suspicious of this internet as the days go by.

[@melissaburris7606]

Love the narration style ❤ great video!

[@darkfox2076]

Amazing visuals and quality commentaries must be a V101 video. Thanks Rob great video.

[@sirinalside2051]

Thanks for it 😁

[@chrissmurray255]

Excellent presentation. I remember well those images of Neptune, and the other outer planets, being all over the newspapers, and the television at the time. It really caught the popular imagination. You brought part of that excitement back for me today.

[@raulduke6105]

Fantastic work, excellent video

[@elleni-41]

I love videos about Neptune.. that fact that they have pictures of that n it's moon triton,just how far it is the voyager 2 made it n took amazing pictures..

[@Gabe94dotcom]

Me too ❤

[@hankbellows]

yeah I‘ve been there once. Really worth a visit

[@elleni-41]

@@hankbellows .. next time u go I wanna go too..😉😉

[@automatonm99]

Took a good 12 years to get there.

[@elleni-41]

@@automatonm99 .. Yes it did...

[@JohnnyNiteTrain]

Director James Gray said that they made Neptune way bluer than it is just for the stunning visuals, in Ad Astra. That movie looked amazing on the big screen. Shot on 35mm by Nolan's DP Hoyte Van Hoytema.

[@jbellbird9050]

An amazing spectacle thanks Rob!

[@TheGreyMan85]

I really like the honesty of this channel, they don't make up stories like a lot of other space channels.

[@mikemcgrath5188]

back in 1993 i saw neptune and uranus together [1 degree apart] in an 8" SMT at 30x. neptune looked like a blue dot and uranus like a green dot.

[@marylamb7707]

My favorite planet! Thank you. Haven't seen you in a while.❤

[@Tollingduckie]

Neptune has always been my favourite. Love the name, the colour, how far away it is ❤

[@cassandrawho5065]

Stunning! Absolutely beyond stunning.

[@Moonandstars_22]

Favourite space channel.Always so informative, thank you for a great video.!

[@mondai2713]

So majesty and absolutely stunning 💙💙

[@ChrisSeastrand]

Great dark spot, small dark spot. Whoever comes up with these names deserves a raise.

[@siamakalaei1148]

Thanks a lot for such beautifully crafted videos. 😍😍

[@EarthyChan]

Love the video V

[@SolarStones_]

I hope we can some day send a cassini type probe to neptune

[@keithallver2450]

And Uranus.

[@hydrostatic8048]

I appreciate how you convert km to miles for us. 👍

[@lloydrobinson7081]

keep the clips coming

[@ray1956]

Earth 🌍 rare and special ❤👨🏿‍⚕️

[@josephpacchetti5997]

The Voyagers were launched when I was 19 years old, I've been following them for a very long time, and they are fascinating, The pale blue dot let's us know just how small we are in the vast Universe/Universes, another fun fact, By the time Voyager-1s signal reaches Earth, It Is 20 Billion times weaker than a digital watch battery, Thank You Rob, V-101 Space Rocks. 👊 😎

[@aseemkapoor6294]

Very well prepared

[@Gabe94dotcom]

I agree

[@rudevalve]

Certified Gold!!!!!

[@lorzz4939]

Superb video ❤

[@hemaccabe4292]

We really need to have missions to Neptune and Uranus.

[@scottcallis3491]

Hypnotic and beautiful..... From a distance

[@ErnestoMolina-te1eb]

Soo cool

[@Neptune_wastaken]

Personal space?

[@Neptune_wastaken]

If I ever do change my user or pfp, I was called Neptune and was Neptune just for context

[@kathryn21]

i never get tired of seeing a notification from V! off topic but are you planning anything special once you hit 1mil subs? ☺️

[@elliotwizerd]

As a uni student that is studing to work in astronomy. I realy like your channel 😊 good and informative

[@SunsetGuitarist]

You've almost got me sold on the space age hover pen

[@sleadaddy]

China does have a Uranus flyby at least planned, though I have no idea how likely it is to actually happen. It's an orbiter of Saturn that will also send a flyby probe past Uranus.

[@waxedearth5425]

I appreciate the raw images

[@jouk3338]

Amazing ❤🤍

[@asukamiyafuji]

Gemini Home Entertainment comes to mind when I see Neptune. "The Iris see's us"

[@user-rr2eo7gb7z]

WHY NO further future missions toNeptune+Uranas ???

[@cherub3624]

Shame that they made those photos more blue than they actually are.

[@sca.astro1234]

So nice

[@jacoblahr]

This channel is the OG of space exploration videos since 2012 yall been bringing it! Should have 905 million subscribers not 905K 😁🙃

[@debbiemoore2747]

The outer planets are fascinating. It will be an exciting time when we can get out that far and havevan up close look.

[@KerrAvon7]

Stop saying, "...thirty-five years...!", it's making me feel very old. I remember buying an astronomy magazine with the beautiful "Melon slice" image just after Voyager II passed the planet, and subsequently leaving the Sol system for parts unknown... Amazing, and as captivating now as the pictures were, 35 years ago... Oh, god damn it!

[@yammz1181]

Bought the pen!! Way too cool I couldn't pass it up!!

[@anasazidarkmoon]

Oh Buddha in a Buick, I can't get one of those pens. I'd spend all my time playing with it and never get any actual work done! Also, for some reason, I'm a little disappointed to learn that Neptune isn't really that intense ultramarine blue.

[@miekohicks5441]

i wish we could create something strong enough to dive into neptune's atmosphere and snap some photos. i really want to know whats happening there

[@The_Gestan]

Shout out to the subs who were here since V101 Science!

[@glenrosarian2352]

Winds of 2400 km/hr? That's roughly 1491 mi/hr. Could you imagine what would happen if a severe thunderstorm with that kind of wind struck a city? Also, I'd like to know how a hexagonal-shaped storm forms. This is so fascinating!

[@llywrch7116]

The hexagonal shape could likely be explained by fluid dynamics. I only had one year of high school physics, so I can't offer a further explanation.

[@jacobplaylists]

WE NEED NEW NEPTUNE AND TRITON MISSIONS!!!!!! Like TOMORROW

[@guitizzar61793]

My guess is the spot is trapped gas, just like when you put a new screen protector on your phone and you get a trapped air bubble, it behaves that way on the time lapse, and some of the gas is frozen, in the spot.

[@Sly88Frye]

I look forward to when there would be an approved mission to seek out Neptune again. Of course I'm also very curious about that one rumored really big planet that's outside I think it was called the kuiper belt. Finding out whether that's actually really a big planet there or if something else is causing what may be some kind of gravitational pull there of some kind

[@MysteriousSpace88]

it would be great if we could visit Neptune

[@master-kq3nw]

We need probe to neptune to better search

[@chrislong3938]

I love the animation of the Voyagers doing their slingshot maneuvers! I've always had an irrational soft spot for Voyager 2. It just seems like V1 gets all the fanfare and V2 is just an also-ran. I kinda feel the same about Hubble ever since Webb deployed.

[@barryjohnson5288]

These are images of Neptune I've never seen, and it's a little disappointing it's not as blue as in the old pictures. However, it's still a beautiful and very interesting planet, and I hope I see the day to see another mission there.

[@Phil-tb2yz]

I really love space, the best anti depressant I've ever experienced.

[@esoteric_mememaster]

10:45 missed opp to say blue balls

[@edwardrichardson8254]

The money shot was the flyby of its largest moon Triton and the images of ice volcanoes erupting plumes of material five miles into the sky and leaving dark streaks on the surface as it fell back to the moon. It's a big moon, comprising 99.5% of all the matter around Neptune, rings, moons and all, it's near our moon in terms of size. Exciting place, they got great shots of it. I had to do a double-take when you said it arrived there in '89, it seemed much earlier to me, but nope, you're right - when it got there the Eighties were over and Nirvana was about to be a thing. Amazing. Shows the focus we put on Mars and the ISS. ISS was famously hated by Sagan, who said it was not space exploration but "growing tomatoes in orbit." It has consumed over $100 billion just to build and it's about 15% of NASA's annual budget. What was the most famous ISS mission for you? The silence puts that commitment into perspective doesn't it? Anyhoo it was cool to visit Neptune in "Ad Astra." Great scenes.

[@RemyMartinVSOP]

Neptune has the fastest winds in the solar system

[@michaelterrell2108]

Time to visit Neptune again. It’s a very underrated planet.

[@MarkWhich]

it's a just a jupiter wanna-be.

[@namonef]

In the future, maybe we can get advanced technology & get more detailed picture of planets.

[@fglatzel]

Misleading title. Who took the 4K videos of Neptune? Voyager I & II camera resolution was only 800x800 pixels and not 4K.

[@stefantakacs]

We need to make some seriously harden types of probes. Something like out of the movies. "3 motherships or transport vehicles" would bring them to say Neptune, Jupiter and Saturn. Fire smaller "hardened" probes to the North, South and central regions of each planet. With cameras and scientific instruments. They'd relay all info back to the "mothership", and relay back to us. Someone from NASA needs to get a hold of me, i got ideas haha 😄

[@NorthernChev]

Just so we’re clear, 7.1 billion kilometers is NOT “4.1 million miles”, like they say in the video (1:43). It actually 4.4 BILLION miles.

[@scardini67611]

I'm guessing the technology they had is more than was admitted to. For national security reasons, perhaps. The Voyager crafts are just amazing

[@phineascromwell]

Neptune is actually not blue, in the way it has long been depicted. It looks like Uranus... more greenish. The deep bluish tone was the result of a data processing mistake.

[@theamused8705]

For some reason, Neptune gives me the creeps.. 🫤

[@ufopulse]

I think that eye is a landmass

[@janparchanski9242]

How is it possible that we have so detailed photos of Pluto which is far further then Neptune?

[@jameshall1300]

The New Horizons probe visited Pluto more recently than Voyager did Neptune, and the cameras on it were far more advanced. You're talking 70s tech versus the 2000s.

[@sinclap2]

@ 1:46 you have 4.4 million miles instead of billion

[@johnhurst5195]

Last week I was there and it's still blue.

[@auntgiiigiii333]

Neptune is such a beauty!! 😍 I’m stuck on Earth 😭😂

[@jamesabbott5242]

Awesome Video 😄😄

[@mxddison9889]

❤

[@infinidominion]

The pole was looking more Pentagonal than Hexagonal

[@prisinicmemes8795]

first. amazing vid btw

[@Gabe94dotcom]

True ❤

[@MrSpikebender]

I guess we take a lot for granted. In my head if your flying by once in a life time you would a full photo album.

[@jameshall1300]

At that distance you're limited by the amount of data you can actually transmit back. You can take all the pictures you want, but if you don't have enough time or bandwidth to send them all, then what's the point? They probably took as many as they could send back with some redundancy for transmission errors.

[@montylc2001]

Why nothing about Triton??? It was probably far more fascinating than Neptune, having active geysers and liquid lakes!

[@user-rr2eo7gb7z]

Beautiful D BLUE VERY BLUE PLANET NEPTUNE. Is there WATER found ???? Life possib le ?? BlueAliens ??

[@zardoz7900]

Its a off white shade of Turquoise

[@jclar7210]

Alot of credit to the cameraman who went in and recorded the 2000 mile per hour interior and wind speed 😬 at 5:36

[@FutureAIDev2015]

What exactly is the cause of the color difference between Uranus and Neptune? Is it because one contains slightly more ammonia or something?

[@chriswhite6095]

Al ooh min yum... lol. Brit talk is just the best! That's why I'm compelled to integrate some of their words into my vernacular. Like, "bloody" and "hallo"

[@NorthernChev]

There’s nothing “special” or new about these hovering pens. We had them on our desks back in the 1970s too. But modern marketing is trying to get you to think this is some new, amazing thing. It’s magnets, guys. That’s it.