Our understanding of the Uranus system may be more limited than previously thought, as the Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 occurred during a rare solar wind event.
The Voyager 2 spacecraft encountered Uranus's magnetosphere shortly after an intense solar wind event, which had a significant impact on the data collected during the flyby.
If Voyager 2 had arrived just a week earlier, it would have revealed a magnetosphere for Uranus more similar to those of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune.
The findings imply that the unique properties observed in Uranus's magnetosphere may have been influenced by an unusual solar wind, leading to potentially flawed conclusions.
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