First of all the freaking jokes I have been seeing about this study made me think it wasn't real at first! Turns out everything we thought we had learned from the Voyager 2 flyby might be wrong.
Our current understanding of Uranus may be based on data collected during an unusual period of time when Uranus' magnetosphere was in an "anomalous, compressed state," which only occurs "less than five percent of the time."
Now there has not been a probe that has gone to study Uranus since Voyager 2 almost 40 years ago. While the 2023-2032 Planetary Science Decadal Survey placed the Uranus Orbiter and Probe at the top of its list and targeted a lift-off in 2031 (the next window to launch something towards Uranus that has already slipped until later into the 2030s due to a shortfall in plutonium production. The closest mission that would explore Uranus is China's Tianwen-4 which isn't planned to be launched until 2045!
The data collected by Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby and found that the probe had examined Uranus shortly after an intense solar wind event, which saw a huge surge of charged particles blast its way from the Sun.
The event compressed the planet's magnetosphere, they found, causing it to deform into a significantly asymmetrical shape that appeared to lack plasma.
"We postulate that such a compression of the magnetosphere could increase energetic electron fluxes within the radiation belts and empty the magnetosphere of its plasma temporarily," the researchers wrote in their paper.
With Space being a huge thing under the first Trump Admin I would expect to see a similar thing with a second time around. This could help benefit getting this mission set up to go even though the actual launch would be after his administration.
They are making Space X rated now 🤦
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Space X 😚
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I mean maybe NASA had cold hands! I sure as shit doing wanna be touched by cold hands!
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22 sats \ 5 replies \ @bren 17 Nov
That's a funny title.
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14 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 17 Nov
Title of the year.
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32 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 17 Nov
this post is going places just for the title
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I thought about changing it since that is what was autogenerated but went no… people will actually look at this with this title 😂
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guilty
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Hey don’t worry acceptance is a key thing!!! 🤪
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Forward this to notthebee.com
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 OP 23h
lol who are they?!
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I'm surprised you haven't heard of them. They're the real news division of Babylon Bee, where they post news articles that seem ridiculous enough to be satire
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bren 23h
Yea, they would like this one.
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the master peace title
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Gen 1:1 KJV In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth...
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