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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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 ...
Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the planet. But the spacecraft’s observations of Uranus’ magnetosphere were wildly ...
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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 ...
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Fresh look at Uranus leads NASA scientists to believe the planet could be capable of supporting life
"A future mission to Uranus is crucial to understanding not only the planet and magnetosphere, but also its atmosphere, rings and moons," Dr Jasinski said. Uranus is blue-green in colour due to ...
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Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
coming within 50,600 miles of Uranus's cloudtops. While encountering the planet on Jan. 24, 1986, the probe returned detailed ...
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Mysteries of Uranus may be explained by extreme space weather – study
Mysteries about Uranus which have puzzled scientists for decades may have been the result of unexpected data collected during an unusually powerful solar storm, research suggests. In 1986 ...