Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/voyager-program/voyager-2/mining-old-data-from-nasas-voyager-2-solves-several-uranus-mysteries/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn50 When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scientists. Now, new research analyzing the data collected during that flyby 38 years ago is helping solve several of these Uranus mysteries.