Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was Jan. 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-03-revisiting-decades-old-voyager-scientists-secret.html