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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study

The misleading observations were made about the planet's magnetic field. 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 ...

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Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while confounding, at least shed some light on a crucial characteristic that seemed to set the planet apart from other giants like Jupiter.

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Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.

NASA's Voyager mission beamed back unprecedented views. It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the Voyager 2 probe — one of a duo of Voyager craft sent into deep space — journeyed by the ice giant Uranus,

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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 ...

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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 ...

Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus

But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited at a time of unusual conditions - an intense solar wind event - ...

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Uranus’s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades. Now, scientists have shown why

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

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Uranus mystery: New insights unravel magnetic field anomalies

Moreover, the magnetic field's intensity in the southern hemisphere was ten times weaker than in the north. This kind of ...

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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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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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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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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

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.

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