and altitude of the show the body of half a million spectators among them was french president armand falièreand future british prime minister david laid george on august 22, 1989, astronomers reported that the american automatic station voyager 2 prove that neptune has rings gas giant. these are clots of dust and ice that revolve around the planets in the plane of the equator. previously, the rings of saturn, uranus and jupiter, were known in voyager color photographs. they are also visible around neptune. the task was difficult. neptune is 30 times farther from the sun than the earth and, unlike us, receives only a thousandth of the sunlight . for pictures. a long exposure of at least 10 minutes was needed, and the station raced at a speed of 90,000 km / h so that the images were not blurred from the control center and could slow down the voyager engines and slow down, probe. it was possible to transmit an image near neptune. five main rings they were named after the famous astronomers halle to the left of lassel arago and adams. this opening voyager flew. it has been flying further for 45