Space Daily September 06, 2026 • 16:30

The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a - Space Daily

A reanalysis suggests Voyager 2 encountered Uranus during rare solar-wind compression, temporarily shrinking the dayside magnetosphere and reshaping its plasma environment.

Voyager 2 reached Uranus on 24 January 1986 and remains the only spacecraft ever to have visited the planet. Its brief passage discovered the Uranian magnetic field and supplied the in-situ measureme… [+9970 chars]

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The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a - Space Daily

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