Voyager 2 Space Probe

Uranus, Voyager 2 and NASA

We've been wrong about Uranus for nearly 40 years, new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun.

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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 of Uranus caught the planet during a rare magnetic anomaly caused by unique space weather,

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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,

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1986 NASA probe gave us the wrong impression of Uranus — until now

For 38 years, the secrets of Uranus have remained just out of humanity’s reach. Now, however, a deep dive into data from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft may change what we thought we knew about this distant planet.

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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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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time

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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 ...

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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

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

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 ...

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How the 47-year-old Voyager spacecraft are still exploring space

The Voyager 1 and 2 probes have been on a remarkable journey. Since their launch in 1977, they have traveled through the solar system, past several of the outer planets, and headed out beyond ...

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NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...

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.

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NASA switches off instrument on Voyager 2 spacecraft to save power

NEW YORK — To save power, NASA switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency said Tuesday that Voyager 2's plasma science instrument ...

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