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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar System
When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
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, ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
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 ...
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 ...
The Daily Telegraph3d
Uranus could be more interesting than we thought, says Nasa
Everything scientists know about the distant world has been thrown into question after reviewing the only mission to venture the 1.8 billion ... planet in the solar system, thanks to its frigid ...
The New York Times4d
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited
In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system. That flyby, lasting just five hours, remains to date the only visit to Uranus ...
New Scientist on MSN4d
Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...
fbcnews3d
Scientists uncover a 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.
Scientific American1m
The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
Mint6d
10 NASA images that will leave you in awe: From strong solar flare to stunning Jupiter
NASA Image of Jupiter The spacecraft was sent in space to unravel mysteries surrounding the gas giant related to its origin and evolution, its moon, and the solar system and beyond. The spacecraft ...