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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 confounding, at least shed some light on a crucial characteristic that seemed to ...
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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When the Voyager 2 ...
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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981
Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct. 19 to Oct. 24, after a technical malfunction forced the spacecraft's main radio transmitter to shut down, NASA officials wrote ...
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15 Billion Miles Away, NASA's Voyager 1 Comes Back To Life Using 1981 Tech
Voyager 1 has two radio transmitters. NASA's 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft recently established contact with Earth after a brief halt with the help of a radio transmitter that has not been used ...
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Voyager 1 spacecraft phones home with transmitter that hasn't been used since 1981
Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to using a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981. The interstellar explorer experienced a brief ...
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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
Now, researchers say that the data could have been affected by a solar wind event Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent In 1986, Voyager 2 took this image of Uranus during its flyby. NASA / JPL ...
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What Voyager 1 & 2 Found Beyond Our Solar System
Astrum What Voyager 1 & 2 Found Beyond Our Solar System Posted: October 23, 2024 | Last updated: October 31, 2024 In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 on a mission to explore the outer planets ...
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NASA is now talking to Voyager 1 with a radio that hasn’t been used since 1981
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA can’t catch a break when it comes to Voyager 1, apparently. That’s because the ...
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Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling
Almost everything known about Uranus’s magnetic field comes from a sole planetary fly-by by NASA’s Voyager 2 craft in 1986. The probe found that the planet’s magnetosphere was tilted and ...
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods — after a technical issue caused a days-long communications blackout with the historic mission ...
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84-year-old logs 1,000 miles on his trike
And that something is riding his electric trike. Even though he lives at the Sanford Orchard Hills retirement center; he finds time to ride the streets and bike paths of Dell Rapids daily ...