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Space photo of the week: 1st-ever close-up of Neptune is Voyager 2's final portrait of a planet


Voyager 2, NASA's longest-running mission, explored Neptune during a historic encounter on Aug. 25, 1989, sending back humanity's first close-ups of the planet.

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