Voyager 2’s defining Uranus flyby may have been skewed by a
3 days ago · CNN —. When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also ...
Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus …
3 days ago · New research using data from the mission shows a solar wind event took place during the flyby, leading to a mystery about the planet’s magnetosphere that now may be solved. 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 ...
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s …
22 hours ago · Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Now, new research analyzing data from that 38-year-old flyby has shed light on this mystery, revealing it was likely due to a cosmic coincidence. Just days before Voyager 2’s flyby, an unusual space weather event compressed Uranus’s magnetosphere, dramatically altering the planet’s magnetic field and creating the ...
Uranus may have experienced rare event during sole Voyager 2 …
2 days ago · Download USA TODAY's app to get to the heart of news Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years. NASA says Starliner astronauts Suni Williams, Butch ...
Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus …
4 days ago · 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. ... The findings could be good news for those five major moons of Uranus: Some of them might be geologically active after all. With an explanation for the temporarily ...
Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, …
1 day ago · After traveling some 1.8 billion miles to reach Uranus 38 years ago, Voyager 2 gathered its data on the planet in less than six hours, discovering ten new moons and two rings alongside the void ...
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 …
3 days ago · Uranus, captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 on Jan. 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet for the orbit of Neptune. NASA/JPL. Jonathan O’Callaghan previously reported on how Uranus got its ...
Uranus may have looked weird when NASA's Voyager 2 flew by - Science News
3 days ago · Voyager 2 found that Uranus’ magnetosphere, the bubble of magnetism surrounding a planet, was bizarre. It seemed to lack plasma, a common component of other planets’ magnetospheres.
Voyager 2 observed Uranus’s magnetosphere in a rare ... - Nature
4 days ago · The problem. In 1986, Voyager 2 made groundbreaking discoveries during its flyby of Uranus. It observed that Uranus has a highly tilted internal magnetic field, which forms a tilted and twisted ...
Voyager 2’s 1986 pass by Uranus may have misled us for years, …
2 days ago · Voyager 2 traveled more than 1.8 billion miles in nine years to reach Uranus. It gathered most of its data on the mysterious planet, including its rings and moons, in just six hours. The results ...
- Some results have been removed