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 ...
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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 ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986
When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.
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NASA Engineers Restore Voyager 1 Communications After 15 Billion-Mile Transmission Disruption
NASA restores Voyager 1 contact, addressing transmitter shutdown. Voyager 1's fault protection system triggered communications loss. Engineers work to stabilise Voyager 1 at 15 billion miles from ...
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Voyager 1 is alive: NASA spacecraft reawakens 15 billion miles away from Earth
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is ... fault protection system activation and restore Voyager 1 to its normal operating mode. Voyager 1 and 2 are the only spacecraft exploring interstellar space.
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Turned Down
NASA engineers have powered down the plasma science instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve energy. Launched in 1977, the spacecraft is now 12.8 billion miles from Earth. With power decreasing yearly ...
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The next problems: Error protection on Voyager 1 caused contact to break off
Voyager 1 and its sister probe Voyager 2 are NASA's oldest active space probes. Launched in 1977, they were able to take advantage of a rare constellation for their journey, in which the four ...
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NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission: Live updates
Read more about it. NASA's Artemis 2 lunar mission in 2024 will send the first astronauts around the moon in nearly 50 years. The mission will launch four astronauts around the moon on a lunar ...
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NASA astronaut released from hospital after return from space station
A NASA astronaut who was hospitalized upon return from the International Space Station for an unspecified medical condition was released Saturday in "good health," the U.S. space agency said.
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NASA astronaut is released from the hospital after returning from space
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by NASA shows Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, left, NASA astronauts Michael ...
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Jeri Taylor, ‘Star Trek’ Writer and Producer on ‘The Next Generation’ and ‘Voyager,’ Dies at 86
In 1994, she shared an Emmy nomination for outstanding drama series. She, Berman and Pillar created Star Trek: Voyager, which bowed on UPN in January 1995, and she was that series’ showrunner ...