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Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2's Flyby of Uranus in 1986

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A new study suggests Voyager 2 flew past Uranus at an unusual moment when the planet’s magnetosphere was warped by particles from the Sun .

The rare compression of the magnetosphere only occurs 4% of the time around Uranus .

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune .

In 2022 , a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering , and Medicine called for a Uranus orbiter.

The report also concluded that Uranus ’ outermost moons, Titania and Oberon , orbit inside the planet’s magnetosphere.

That would make it much easier for a spacecraft to determine the presence of a subsurface ocean.

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