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Dave :2001: (@davehigginsnaples@mstdn.social)
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Someday I'll be mature enough not to giggle at a headline like this. Today is not that day, however. https://www.yahoo.com/news/wind-blowing-uranus-makes-hard-161117198.html
6h ago
From nytimes.com
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited
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Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.
#uranus #planets #voyager2 #magnetosphere
on Tue, 4PM
From futurism.com
Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains
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Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.
on Wed, 6PM
From livescience.com
We've been wrong about Uranus for nearly 40 years, new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals
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Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun.
#space #uranus #science #Technology
on Thu, 7PM