1985
Puck Discovery
Identifies Puck in Voyager 2 images during the spacecraft's approach to Uranus.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Uranus in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Identifies Puck in Voyager 2 images during the spacecraft's approach to Uranus.
Voyager 2 begins long-range scientific observations of Uranus before the January 1986 flyby.
Voyager 2 observations reveal ten previously unknown moons orbiting Uranus.
Voyager imagery identifies small moons associated with the confinement of Uranus's narrow rings.
Voyager radio and magnetic measurements establish a rotation period of about seventeen hours for Uranus.
Voyager 2 observations reveal two additional rings and new detail in the existing ring system.
Studies Voyager measurements of Uranus's cold and subdued atmosphere.
Leads Voyager imaging work during the Uranus encounter.
Works with Voyager infrared data used to study temperatures and atmospheric properties in the Uranian system.
Voyager infrared measurements characterize temperatures in the Uranian atmosphere and satellite system.
Finds Uranus has an unusually tilted and offset magnetic field.
Voyager 2 magnetometer data reveal a strongly tilted and offset Uranian magnetic field.
Voyager observations measure substantial atmospheric winds despite Uranus's subdued visible appearance.
Voyager 2 makes the only spacecraft flyby of Uranus and its moons.
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