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Neptune's largest moon. The only large moon with a retrograde orbit, suggesting it was captured.
One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.
Triton is placed by solving a Keplerian orbit around neptune at the simulation time (a = 354,759 km, e = 0.000016, i = 156.9°, period 5.9 d).
Triton is presented using voyager-mapped surface; terrain-free observed-color continuation in the unmapped cap; measured bulk atmosphere data.
Triton: mean radius 1,353.4 km. These values are bundled with the object record and drive the rendered size.
The unobserved northern cap uses only a smooth color continuation. It contains no measured surface detail.
Close-to-natural enhanced color. Voyager did not map the full northern hemisphere; the unmapped cap carries no invented terrain.
The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.
| Dataset | Last refreshed | Horizon | Automated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planetary satellite mean elements | no snapshot date | Mean elements (a, e, i, period) for every known natural satellite | No, refreshed by hand npm run generate:moons |