Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun. When you purchase through links on our ...
Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby revealed Uranus’s unusual magnetic structure. Study links the magnetosphere’s distortion to an intense solar wind. Findings suggest new methods to explore Uranus’s moons for ...
Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings are also visible in this image, including the elusive Zeta ring—the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI NASA’s ...
But long before that, Voyager 2 stopped by Uranus, coming within 50,600 miles of Uranus' cloudtops. While encountering the planet on Jan. 24, 1986, the probe returned detailed photos and other ...