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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 weird plasma burst from the sun.

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Data from decades old mission solves Uranus mysteries

NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers and renewed interest in the icy planet and its moons.

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Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings,

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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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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years

Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.

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Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

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

the rest of Uranus’ magnetosphere was almost devoid of plasma. Scientists maintained that the missing plasma also puzzled ...

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Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

NASA Takes A Deep Dive Into Uranus And Solves Gassy Giant's Hidden Secrets

New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...

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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.

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Moon named "Miranda" orbiting Uranus seems to have an ocean and possibly life

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

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Scientists have cracked the mystery of Uranus – and it's all about wind

Scientists think they have got Uranus all wrong. Astronomers have been studying it long and hard, and suggest what they have ...

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