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ISRO and IIT Madras Partner to Launch Research Centre to Tackle Spacecraft Thermal Challenges
ISRO and IIT Madras establish a centre for spacecraft thermal solutions ₹1.84 crore funds new centre for advanced space ...
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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 ...
Space.com1d
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 ...
Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
Nature1d
Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling
Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...
Yahoo News1d
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
The probe, along with its Voyager 1 twin, launched in 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida to explore the far reaches of our ...
Voyager 2: "Cosmic coincidence" caused misleading measurements on Uranus
Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...
Rosetta-Philae Probe: How Humans Touched Down on a Comet for the First Time
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
Uranus’s wind problem could be good for humanity
The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...
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 ...
Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...
Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.