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Uranus Magnetosphere Mystery Unlocked (Artist's Concept)
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About this work
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first – and, so far, only – close glimpse of this outer planet. Scientists were confronted by a mystery: The energized particles around the planet defied their understanding of how magnetic fields work to trap particle radiation. The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere (its protective bubble) was behaving before Voyager 2's flyby.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineUranus Magnetosphere Mystery Unlocked (Artist's Concept). NASA/JPL, 2024-11-11. Public domain. ID: PIA26069.
