Only one spacecraft has flown near Uranus and Neptune. Yet the wealth of data captured by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft some 34 years ago is still revealing tantalizing hints and reminding scientists of why we need to go back.
Only one spacecraft has flown near Uranus and Neptune, the mysterious ice giant planets on the edge of our solar system.
Yet the wealth of data captured by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft some 34 years ago is still revealing tantalizing hints and reminding scientists of why we need to go back. Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, and now, thanks to a little blip discovered in some data, NASA scientists know it also flew through a plasmoid. A plasmoid is a giant magnetic bubble that likely pinched off part of the planet's atmosphere, sending it out into space.
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