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Uranus, NASA and Voyager 2
We've been wrong about Uranus for nearly 40 years, new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals
Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun.
1986 NASA probe gave us the wrong impression of Uranus — until now
For 38 years, the secrets of Uranus have remained just out of humanity’s reach. Now, however, a deep dive into data from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft may change what we thought we knew about this distant planet.
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby of Uranus caught the planet during a rare magnetic anomaly caused by unique space weather,
NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
The researchers took a fresh look at eight months of data from around the time of Voyager 2's visit and found that it encountered
Uranus
just a few days after the solar wind had squashed its
magnetosphere
– the planet's protective magnetic bubble – to ...
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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
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Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
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Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
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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 Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains
Scientists 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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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
Voyager 2’s visit to
Uranus
in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.
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Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
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New Uranus Research Suggests All We Knew About Planet Could Be Wrong
Scientists gathered much of the knowledge about Uranus after NASA's robotic spacecraft conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.
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