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

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  • 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.

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