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, according to a new study.
Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme solar wind — a flow of particles shooting out from the sun — impacted the environs around Uranus and created the abnormal episode.
Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986
When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.
Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by
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.
Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
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 that squashed the planet's magnetic field, dramatically compressing Uranus's magnetosphere. "If Voyager 2 had arrived just a few ...
Voyager-2 visited Uranus in 1986. Something more happened when it arrived
The Voyager 2 mission, which provided humanity's first and only close-up view of Uranus, revealed a planet with unexpectedly intense radiation belts and an apparently plasma-depleted magnetosphere.
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Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...
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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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
The heightened solar wind compressed the magnetosphere. According to new research, we’ve been treating that squashed ...
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 ...
Rare space event made us think all the wrong things about this solar system planet
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
A Chance Encounter 40 Years Ago Tricked Us Into Believing Uranus Couldn't Host Life
A new analysis of Voyager 2's data from 1986 reveals that Uranus isn't anywhere near as sterile as researchers once thought.
Voyager 2: "Cosmic coincidence" caused misleading measurements on Uranus
Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...
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Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet
Voyager 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 ...