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But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, scientists were able to glean some insights that, while ...

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Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2. Illustration. (photo credit: Merlin74. Via Shutterstock) NASA is set to shut down the Low Energy ...

A twin probe, Voyager 2, saw the same thing in 2007. Last year, Voyager 1 witnessed another exit sign. The number of cosmic rays from interstellar space went up, perhaps because the Sun’s ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

Voyager High-Gain Antenna (HGA) schematic. Note the Cassegrain optics, as well as the frequency-selective subreflector that’s transparent to S-band (2.3-GHz) but reflects X-band (8.4-GHz).

A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have ...

This approach can now be used to determine the rotation rate of any celestial object with a magnetic field and auroras — including exoplanets.

and should do the same for Voyager 2 when it crosses over sometime in the next few years. The PLS looks for the lowest-energy particles in plasma, and can also look for particles moving at ...

Launched in 1977 to study the large outer planets, Voyager 1 and 2 are now, respectively, more than 13 billion and 11 billion miles from Earth, exploring the outer boundary of the heliosphere—a ...