Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the ... “The magnetosphere Voyager 2 measured was only a snapshot in time,” Spilker said ...

Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus has for decades left scientists perplexed. As a result, Uranus earned a decades-long reputation as an outlier in our solar system.

But the spacecraft’s observations of Uranus’ magnetosphere were wildly different from astronomers’ expectations, and scientists deemed the planet an outlier among the other large planets in ...

Researchers were eager to study Uranus’ magnetosphere, and what they saw in the Voyager 2 data in 1986 flummoxed them. Inside the planet’s magnetosphere were electron radiation belts with an ...

A recent analysis of 38-year-old Voyager 2 data indicates that the intrepid spacecraft flew past Uranus at an unusual moment when the planet’s magnetosphere was warped by particles from the Sun.

Even if Voyager 2 had come to visit a mere week earlier, the researchers suggest, it would have found a far more recognizable magnetosphere, like those surrounding other planets in our solar ...

The complicated magnetic environment of 'weird' Uranus. The four moons in this study—Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—are tidally locked to Uranus, so that they always show the same side to ...

Recently, a research team from the National Institute for Fusion Science and the University of Tokyo conducted an experimental study on this topic using the "artificial magnetosphere" RT-1 device.

Past research into fossilized tree rings also revealed that the magnetosphere was reduced to around 5% of its current strength, enabling solar radiation to paint auroras across the equator.

Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the ... “The magnetosphere Voyager 2 measured was only a snapshot in time,” Spilker said ...