Artist's impression of the encounter of the Voyager 2 spacecraft with the planet Uranus on January 24,1986. Uranus' nine known rings are shown. The planet's polar axis points nearly in the ecliptic plane,& the rings appear almost fully open to Earth-based observers. Uranus will be Voyager 2's third planetary encounter following Jupiter in July 1979 & Saturn in August 1981. After Uranus,the spacecraft will be targeted for an encounter with Neptune in 1989 | |
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