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Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan
40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly It is 40 years since Voyager 2 performed the ...
Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts about 97.7 degrees relative to its orbit, so the planet spends long stretches ...
Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was Jan. 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, ...
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