NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a five-day flyby by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Now, they have found that during the five days of observation, the planet was facing an intense solar wind event that ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something of an enigma. Now, it seems that our ...
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
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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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