What is it about?
This is the definitive summary of initial scientific results from the Voyager 2 spacecraft encounter with Uranus in 1986, as produced by the imaging team. It covers results for the atmosphere, satellites, and rings. (Non-imaging results are reported in separate articles in the same issue, such as from the magnetometer team, etc.)
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Why is it important?
Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus to date. Both Uranus and Neptune represent the ice-giant planet type, which is turning out to be more common in extrasolar planetary systems than the Jupiter and Saturn, gas-giant planet type.
Perspectives
I was a graduate student in planetary science at Caltech, 1984-1989, and was fortunate to be able to work on the 1986 Voyager Uranus encounter with my thesis advisor, Prof. Andrew Ingersoll, who was a member of the Voyager imaging team.
Professor Timothy E. Dowling
University of Louisville
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This page is a summary of: Voyager 2 in the Uranian System: Imaging Science Results, Science, July 1986, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
DOI: 10.1126/science.233.4759.43.
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