TRITON MOON THE UNIVERSE
TRITON THE MOON OF NEPTUNE TRITON MOON HISTORY Beyond the warmth of the sun past, the four Rocky planets further than the gas giants at the very distance age of our solar system like two worlds that we are only just beginning to explore and understand. They are the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. These planets are dozens of times the mass of the Earth. And they are found so distant that we have only managed to visit them once, in 1977 the Voyager 2 spacecraft took to the skies embarking on a 12 year mission to reach. What was once considered unreachable, but we learn more about these massive icy worlds, we learn more about the satellites that orbit them to the iciest the most far out moons in the solar system. In the Neptunian system one moon stands out from the rest Triton. Triton is a special moon with properties we never imagined objects so far from the sun possessing but it was not until we reached the moon in 1989 that we finally begin to understand its true origins. Tr...