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.
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,
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 compressed its magnetosphere, creating conditions Voyager caught on camera by a lucky coincidence.
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,
New Clues from Voyager 2 Reveal Uranus May Be More Mysterious Than Originally Thought
Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be wrong.
Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by
A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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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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Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...