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Which Is the Only Spacecraft to Have Visited Uranus and Neptune?

šŸ’” The Answer

  • Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited either ice giant planet.
  • It flew by Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989.
  • No other spacecraft has visited these distant planets.
  • This made Voyager 2 a unique explorer of the outer solar system.
  • Its journey to the ice giants was enabled by its trajectory after gas giants.

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