The spaceship Voyager 2 encountered like a wild hair day at Uranus; if it had arrived just days earlier, its observations would have been completely different.
The new study claims that Voyager 2 observed Uranus during an unusual spike of solar wind activity, causing a rare shrinkage of its magnetosphere.
Scientists from NASA emphasize that the conditions during Voyager 2's flyby were exceptional, noting that those observations were taken during just 4% of the time.
This recent research rekindles hope that the Uranian system holds many mysteries yet to be explored, including potentially promising moons.
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