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Dr. Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, announced a very rough timeline for a potential orbiter and probe mission to Uranus.
A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years.
But, would NASA actually name a Uranus probe something so silly? It’s honestly unlikely. The #icegiants community is insanely creative & hilarious Here are the two lists:1.
"You're really asking the internet to name a probe going to Uranus?" / Off World / NASA / Uranus Updated 9.13.22, 12:14 PM EDT by Victor Tangermann ...
The surprises that the Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission, should it indeed fly, will reveal at that enigmatic world will likely put scientists in a sideways spin, too. Advertisement.
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years. “The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur about 4% of the time," according to the lead ...
China’s push for a Uranus probe isn’t likely to be the last we’ll see, either. Image source: NASA, ESA, A. Simon, and M.H. Wong and A. Hsu China plans to launch its Uranus probe on a Long ...
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also ...
Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter than the other — but not the side they were expecting.
Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system. That ...
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also ...