Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...
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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For YearsThe heightened solar wind compressed the magnetosphere. According to new research, we’ve been treating that squashed ...
A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say ...
It turns out that in the days just before Voyager 2's flyby, the planet had been affected by an unusual kind of space weather ...
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Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planetVoyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...
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