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NASA's Voyager 2 data on Uranus moons may have been skewed by solar storm

Previously it was believed Uranus' moons were desolate, desert-like worlds, but now it seems that the data from the Voyager 2 probe.

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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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 of Uranus caught the planet during a rare magnetic anomaly caused by unique space weather,

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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.

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

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft detected an unexpected phenomenon in the environment around the planet Uranus in 1986. Years later, scientists found the cause.

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New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought.

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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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Rare space event made us think all the wrong things about this solar system planet

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study

Scientists maintained that the missing plasma also puzzled them because they knew that the five major Uranian moons in the ...

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Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

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NASA Takes A Deep Dive Into Uranus And Solves Gassy Giant's Hidden Secrets

New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...

Potential For Life Found On Uranus' Moons, Scientists Reveal

For decades, this led scientists to a possibly inaccurate view of Uranus and its moons, explained Dr William Dunn from ...

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Fresh look at Uranus leads NASA scientists to believe the planet could be capable of supporting life

A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life.

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