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NASA study redefines magnetosphere
Uranus secrets uncovered: NASA study redefines magnetosphere
In 1986, humanity got its first close look at Uranus's secrets thanks to the Voyager 2 probe. After a lengthy journey, this probe approached the seventh planet in the Solar System, delivering data that intrigued scientists for years.
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. This frigid planet, our solar system's third largest, remains a bit of an enigma 243 years later.
Uranus isn’t as weird as scientists thought; it just took nearly 40 years to find out why
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange space weather event.
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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, ...
Space on MSN
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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time
Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...
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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.
Nature
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Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...
IFLScience on MSN
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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
The heightened solar wind compressed the
magnetosphere
. According to new research, we’ve been treating that squashed ...
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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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Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...
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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 ...
Phys.org
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Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
It turns out that in the days just before Voyager 2's flyby, the planet had been affected by an unusual kind of space weather ...
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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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