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Uranus, Voyager 2
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.
Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
NASA's Voyager mission beamed back unprecedented views. It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the Voyager 2 probe — one of a duo of Voyager craft sent into deep space — journeyed by the ice giant Uranus,
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, baffling new mysteries confronted ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Voyager 2: "Cosmic coincidence" caused misleading measurements on Uranus
Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...
The Debrief
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New Clues from Voyager 2 Reveal Uranus May Be More Mysterious Than Originally Thought
In a twist worthy of an astronomical detective story, data from NASA’s
Voyager
2
, collected nearly 40 years ago, provides ...
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 ...
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Uranus and its moons may have ideal conditions for life—but Voyager 2 missed it due to one bad day
New analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a solar storm may have skewed our understanding of Uranus and its moons.
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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.
The Register on MSN
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Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission
Launched when Jimmy Carter was President of the United States, the two Voyager spacecraft have endured almost half a century ...
Space on MSN
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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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