Voyager 2 may have caught Uranus on a freak day — a 2024 reanalysis suggests the 1986 flyby that shaped four decades of understanding arrived during a compressed state estimated to occur only about 4% of the time

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     Voyager 2 may have caught Uranus on a freak day — a 2024 reanalysis suggests the 1986 flyby that shaped four decades of understanding arrived during a compressed state estimated to occur only about 4% of the time

     Our entire understanding of Uranus might rest on a cosmic coincidence—a single spacecraft encounter that may have captured the planet during an extraordinarily rare atmospheric state.