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Old gas blob from Uranus found in vintage Voyager 2 data
Space.com ^ | March 26, 2020 | Meghan Bartels

Posted on 03/27/2020 6:50:38 AM PDT by C19fan

Buried inside data that NASA's iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft gathered at Uranus more than 30 years ago is the signature of a massive bubble that may have stolen a blob of the planet's gassy atmosphere. That's according to scientists who analyzed archived Voyager 2 observations of the magnetic field around Uranus. These measurements had been studied before, but only using a relatively coarse view. In the new research, scientists instead looked at those measurements every two seconds. That detail showed what had previously been missed: an abrupt zigzag in the magnetic field readings that lasted just one minute of the spacecraft's 45-hour journey past Uranus.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; magnetosphere; mikewehner; planetaryplasma; planets; plasmoid; science; uranus; voyager2
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