Which Is the Only Spacecraft to Have Visited an Ice Giant Planet?

💡 The Answer

• Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune.
• It reached Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989.
• No other spacecraft has ever visited either ice giant.
• The New Horizons and Voyager 1 only visited Jupiter and Saturn.
• Ice giants are composed mainly of water, methane, and ammonia ices.
• Voyager 2 provided close-up images of both planets.