Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

A “rare intense wind event” may have messed up our opportunity to probe Uranus.Wind TunnelScientists have found that a “rare intense wind event” during NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have seriously messed with our understanding of the planet.And yes, we admit, the jokes practically write themselves.But the research is very real. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab scientist Jamie Jasinski and an international team of researchers found that our current understanding of Uranus may be based…

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