Voyager 2’s defining Uranus flyby may have been skewed by a
2 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 …
2 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 ...
Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, …
22 hours ago · The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus’ protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that the data could have been affected by a solar wind event Alexa Robles ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings ... - Yahoo News
1 day ago · Voyager 2 visited Uranus in 1986. Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. The probe, along with its Voyager 1 twin, launched in 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida to explore the far reaches of our solar system. The probes, which continue to travel ...
Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time
2 days ago · It's possible, scientists say, that something altered Uranus's magnetosphere long ago — right when Voyager 2 flew by. That something, the research team says, was a surge in solar wind pressure ...
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 …
2 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 ...
Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus …
3 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 ...
Up-close intel on Uranus was distorted by freak solar weather
1 day ago · Spacecraft have flown close to Uranus but once: in 1986, when Voyager 2 drifted past the distant planet (capturing the image above). That flyby indicated Uranus’s magnetic field conditions were weird in several ways, which astronomers have spent decades trying to explain. Now, a new analysis in Nature Astronomy suggests the probe just ...
NASA’s Webb Scores Another Ringed World With New Image of Uranus
Apr 6, 2023 · Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus. The new image features dramatic rings as well as bright features in …
See Uranus’ rings in stunning new image from the Webb telescope
Apr 8, 2023 · CNN — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new stunning image of ice giant Uranus, with almost all its faint dusty rings on display.