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NASA, Uranus and Voyager 2

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,

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Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme solar wind — a flow of particles shooting out from the sun — impacted the environs around Uranus and created the abnormal episode.

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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.

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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

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring

NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

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NASA says Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense

And despite occasional issues with it and Voyager 2, NASA keeps figuring out ... of or point you to the sick Voyager posters, like the one above, that NASA has published on its site.

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NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12 billion miles away

Voyager 2 is over 12 billion miles from Earth, making its way through interstellar space. Along its almost 50-year journey, the probe has seen more of the universe than we ever will. Now ...

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Where Are NASA's Voyagers Now and What Happens to Them Next?

It's been more than 47 years since NASA sent two historic space probes—Voyager 1 and 2—out into the universe, and, against all odds, they're still going. Their journeys have been nothing short ...

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NASA’s Aging Voyager 1 Experiences Glitch In Interstellar Space

It’s how NASA’s long-lived Voyager 1 spacecraft ... It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating spacecraft in history.

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Watch: How NASA Sends Communicates With Voyager 2

Credit: Space.com / animations: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Goddard / produced & edited by Steve Spaleta Rishab Shetty Takes On Role Of Lord Hanuman in Prasanth Varma’s Jai HanuMan. See Poster 9 Powerful ...

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Voyager 1 is alive: NASA spacecraft reawakens 15 billion miles away from Earth

On October 16th, Voyager 1's fault protection system kicked in, a safety measure designed to preserve the spacecraft's limited power.

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 ...

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