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Uranus, Voyager 2 and NASA

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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this probe flew by the ice giant, providing humanity with its first close-up glimpse of the seventh planet from the sun.

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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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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 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, ...

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Voyager has sufficient resources for planned operating expenses into 2027

Voyager is committed to maintaining a strong balance sheet that supports the advancement and growth of its platform and pipeline. Voyager ...

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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 ...

Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...

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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by ...

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Voyager 2: "Cosmic coincidence" caused misleading measurements on Uranus

Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...

Voyager 1 Stuck Using Low-Power Radio That Was Dormant for 43 Years

After almost 50 years in deep space, NASA's Voyager probes have more than their fair share of glitches. Still, it's worth ...

Voyager-2 visited Uranus in 1986. Something more happened when it arrived

The Voyager 2 mission, which provided humanity's first and only close-up view of Uranus, revealed a planet with unexpectedly ...

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A rare event during 1986 Uranus flyby may have skewed the way scientists understand the planet, study finds

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

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