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NEPTUNESTORM-LAYER FLIGHT
W·000°·E

EXPEDITION 008 / THE LAST GIANT

Ride Neptune's
fastest winds.

Cruise Neptune's storm layer — white methane cirrus streaming below, the Great Dark Spot turning on the horizon, Voyager 2 flying formation.

No download. Just a little curiosity.

GRAVITY11.15 m/s²NEPTUNE
ENVIRONMENTAtmosphere · methane haze
STORM TEMPabout −200°C
STORM DECK+130 m

SCIENCE-INSPIRED ARTISTIC RECONSTRUCTION · NOT A SURVEYED STORM SECTION

MZU / EXPEDITION 008

Setting course for the storm layer…

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THE EXPEDITION FIELD GUIDE

A deep-blue sky with a storm on the horizon.

This is a small, freely explorable stretch of Neptune's storm layer, not a whole-atmosphere simulation. The five observation points are different views of the same cruise.

Follow the amber guide dots and distance arrow. Drift to a stop and press E or Discover to add it to your journal. Quick travel does not automatically record a discovery.

Moving around

You are a probe cruising Neptune's storm layer — there is no ground and no falling. The probe cruises forward on its own; W A S D drift sideways, Space rises, C sinks toward the deck. Drag to look. H hides notes; P opens photo mode; Esc closes it.

Disable camera drift for a steadier view.
Same probe, different pull. Neptune's gravity is 11.15 m/s² — a touch stronger than Earth's.
A cabin hum under a restless wind howl, radio hiss, and ice grains ticking off the hull. M toggles.

What you are seeing

Science meets imagination

Neptune has the fastest winds in the Solar System — up to about 2,100 km/h. The Great Dark Spot was a storm wider than Earth when Voyager 2 flew past in 1989. The deck, winds and vortex here are artistic reconstructions.

The flight is far gentler than real Neptunian weather. Press G to compare Earth gravity — Neptune pulls a little harder than home. Listen for the wind howl rising inside the cirrus lanes.

Click the small Sun, Triton, or the distant storm to learn about it — you can then visit it in the Solar System view.

Voyager 2 is a real NASA 3D model — the only probe ever to visit Neptune, in August 1989. The storm deck, particle field, and starfield are generated locally.

This is an imagined site, not a surveyed storm section or an identified aerosol.

IN NEPTUNE'S SKY

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