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 ...
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,
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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.
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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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 ...
this is not the status quo for Uranus, as it is only hit by such a solar barrage 4 per cent of the time, Nasa scientists ...
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