NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a five-day flyby by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Now, they have found that during the five days of observation, the planet was facing an intense solar wind event that ...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...
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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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA ComplainsScientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...
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1986 NASA probe gave us the wrong impression of Uranus — until nowWhen Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...
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A Chance Encounter 40 Years Ago Tricked Us Into Believing Uranus Couldn't Host LifeUnlike any other planet in the solar system, Uranus appeared to be sterile, as did its moons. Now, nearly 40 years later, ...
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
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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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