Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing.

In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the planet, recording mysteries of its magnetic field. Turns out, Uranus may have just been in an unusual state. A solar wind event days before the flyby compressed the giant planet’s magnetosphere, researchers report November 11 in Nature Astronomy. That compression could explain several long-standing puzzles about Uranus and its moons, and could inform planning for future missions (SN: 4/20/22).

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