NASA Solves Decades Old Mysteries Of Uranus After Deep Dive Into Voyager 2 Data
New research suggests that just before Voyager 2 arrived, Uranus was hit by a rare blast of solar wind from the Sun that compressed its magnetosphere, creating conditions Voyager caught on camera by a lucky coincidence.
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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA ComplainsScientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...
But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study SuggestsThe roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world ...
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Uranus isn’t as weird as scientists thought; it just took nearly 40 years to find out whyNASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back ...
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