Scientists May Have Solved Mystery about Uranus’ Radiation Belts

Dec 9, 2025 - 10:15
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Scientists May Have Solved Mystery about Uranus’ Radiation Belts
Allen et al. compared space weather impacts of a fast solar wind structure (first panel) driving an intense solar storm at Earth in 2019 (second panel) with conditions observed at Uranus by Voyager 2 in 1986 (third panel) to potentially solve a 39-year-old mystery about the extreme radiation belts found. Image credit: SwRI.

In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 provided the only direct measurement of the radiation environment at Uranus.

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