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"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...
Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...
A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life. Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 ...
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
a dense slap of plasma from the Sun had reached out and "squashed" the planet’s magnetospheres in a rare space weather event.