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. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus ...

But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while confounding, at least shed some light on a crucial characteristic that seemed to ...

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NASA's Voyager mission beamed back unprecedented views. It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the Voyager 2 probe — one of a duo of Voyager craft sent into deep space ...

Almost everything known about Uranus’s magnetic field comes from a sole planetary fly-by by NASA’s Voyager 2 craft in 1986. The probe found that the planet’s magnetosphere was tilted and ...

Now, researchers say that the data could have been affected by a solar wind event Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent In 1986, Voyager 2 took this image of Uranus during its flyby. NASA / JPL ...

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The Voyager 2 mission, which provided humanity's first and only close-up view of Uranus, revealed a planet with unexpectedly intense radiation belts and an apparently plasma-depleted magnetosphere.