The researchpublishedtoday inNature Astronomysuggests that the magnetic structure of the Uranian system is different than initially thought.
Voyager 2 arrived at just the wrong time!
The other 96% of the time, the planets magnetosphere isnt so extreme.
Natural color (left) and false color (right) images of Uranus snapped by Voyager 2 in the mid-1980s.Image: NASA
Voyager 2 is so distant that it takes light over 19 hours to travel from the spacecraft to Earth.
And that variability means that this system is going to be incredibly dynamic and responsive to the solar wind.
Uranus is an exciting venue for astrobiologythats life off Earth, not biology in your…never mind.
This means they are less likely to be completely frozen.
Its high time we got our asses to Uranus.
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