Heart murmur. Heart murmurs are heart sounds produced when blood flows across one of the heart valves that are loud enough to be heard with a stethoscope. There are two types of murmurs. A functional murmur or physiologic murmur is a heart murmur that is primarily due to physiologic conditions outside the heart. Other types of murmurs are due to structural defects in the heart itself.
Voyager 2 passed Neptune in the summer of 1989, the first spacecraft to observe that planet. Passing about 3,000 miles above Neptune's north pole, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to any planet since it left Earth 12 years earlier.
Voyager 2. Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune. It is the only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice giants. Its primary mission ended with the exploration of the Neptunian system on October 2, 1989, after having visited the Uranian system in 1986, th