among them were french president armand foliers and future british prime minister david louis george.89, astronomers reported that the american automatic station voyager 2 proved the presence of rings in the gas giant neptune. these are clots of dust and ice that revolve around the planets in the plane of the equator. previously known about the rings of saturn, uranus and jupiter 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 with them. 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, they could slow down the voyager engines and slow down the probe. it was possible to transmit the image of neptune's five main rings. they were named after the famous astronomers of halle class level and adams chef, this opening voyger has flown. it has been flying further for 45 years, and is still transmitting data from interste