17h 59min, jan 24, 1986 y - Uranus flyby
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10 new moons named: Puck, Portia, Juliet, Cressida, Rosalind, Belinda, Desdemona, Cordelia, Ophelia, and Bianca.Two new rings in addition of the "old" nine other ones were discovered.
Adding to that a magnetic field tilted at 55 degrees off-axis and off-center.The spacecraft found wind speeds in Uranus’ atmosphere as high as 450 miles per hour and found evidence of a boiling ocean of water some 497 miles below the top cloud surface. Its rings were found to be extremely variable in thickness and opacity.All of this once again discovered by Voyager 2! (Time zone: UT)
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17h 59min, jan 24, 1986 y
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~ 39 years ago
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