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 ...
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 ...
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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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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1986 NASA probe gave us the wrong impression of Uranus — until now
When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...
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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scientists. The energized particles around ...
7 captivating images of Uranus captured by NASA
Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...
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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 ...
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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
To deepen the mystery, the icy moons of the other giant planets leak water ions, which feed the plasma rings that form part ...
Uranus’s wind problem could be good for humanity
The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...
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The strangest planet in the solar system: scientists solve the mystery of Uranus after 38 years
Uranus is often called the strangest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually ...
Uranus and its moons may have ideal conditions for life—but Voyager 2 missed it due to one bad day
New analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a solar storm may have skewed our understanding of Uranus and its moons.