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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...
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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 ...
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1986 NASA probe gave us the wrong impression of Uranus — until now
For 38 years, the secrets of Uranus have remained just out of humanity’s reach. Now, however, a deep dive into data from NASA ...
JPL to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce
In January, 100 on-site contractors at JPL were let go after NASA instructed the lab to reduce spending in anticipation of a ...
Who Moved This Satellite? SkyNet-1A Is Halfway Around the World From Where It Should Be
A satellite that’s been dead for 50 years ended up thousands of miles away from where it should be. Instead of spending the ...