Voyager 2 Flies Uranus: Outer Solar System Revealed
Voyager 2 swooped to within 81,500 kilometres of Uranus, revealing a complex system of rings and ten previously unknown moons that reshaped our understanding of the ice giant. This flyby delivered the first close-up images of the planet's tilted axis and faint blue atmosphere, proving that Uranus possessed a dynamic weather system rather than the static appearance astronomers had long assumed.
January 24, 1986
40 years ago
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