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Nearly four decades after Nasa's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its historic flyby of Uranus, scientists have uncovered new revelations about the ice giant's peculiar magnetic field...
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has shed light on the baffling observations made during the 1986 encounter, potentially resolving long-standing mysteries about the planet's magnetosphere...
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.. . . ..
These findings contradicted scientists' understanding of planetary magnetic fields and particle radiation, earning Uranus a reputation as an outlier in our solar system...
Lead author Jamie Jasinski of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that Voyager 2 arrived at Uranus just days after an unusual solar wind event had dramatically compressed the planet's magnetosphere...
