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 very bad day, not its normal state.
Space Daily·September 6, 2026
A reanalysis suggests Voyager 2 encountered Uranus during rare solar-wind compression, temporarily shrinking the dayside magnetosphere and reshaping its plasma environment. The post The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions…
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