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Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event

Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while confounding, at least shed some light on a crucial characteristic that seemed to set the planet apart from other giants like Jupiter.

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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 probe flew by the ice giant, providing humanity with its first close-up glimpse of the seventh planet from the sun.

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Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

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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

In 1986, when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by the mysterious Uranus, it gave scientists their first close-up peek into the solar ...

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NASA Solves Decades Old Mysteries Of Uranus After Deep Dive Into Voyager 2 Data

New research suggests that just before Voyager 2 arrived, Uranus was hit by a rare blast of solar wind from the Sun that ...

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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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 ...

Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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

Scientists have found that previously-known observations about Uranus were misleading. Uranus, the first planet ...

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