Scientists Uncover a Magnetic Misunderstanding About Uranus
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986. But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited at a time of unusual conditions - an intense solar wind event - that led to misleading observations about Uranus,
Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus ... Jupiter has a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s, according to NASA. The magnetic field traps charged particles and ...
Voyager 2 traveled more than 1.8 billion miles in nine ... The Earth’s strong magnetosphere, described by NASA scientists as a vast, comet-shaped bubble, is critical to our planet’s ...
Uranus, captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 on Jan. 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet for the orbit of Neptune.Credit...NASA/JPL Supported by By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan ...
Launched by NASA in 1977, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus on January 24, 1986, capturing groundbreaking images and data that transformed our understanding of this distant world. Voyager 2 came ...
In 1986, Nasa’s Voyager 2 flew by the seventh planet in the Solar System, providing scientists with their first and only glimpse of Uranus, and shaping their understanding of it since.
A unique view: These pictures of Neptune were obtained by NASA Voyager 2 on April 26,1989. The picture on the top was taken five hours after that at bottom, during which time the planet rotated ...
SEE ALSO: NASA spacecraft has roamed billions of miles — but hasn't reached the 'edge' Tweet may have been deleted Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, have been bopping along for nearly a ...
In 1986, Nasa’s Voyager 2 flew by the seventh planet in the Solar System, providing scientists with their first and only glimpse of Uranus, and shaping their understanding of it since.
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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 ...
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