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NASA scientists digging back through decades-old data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft have made an eyebrow-raising discovery: Something appeared to have been sucking Uranus’ atmosphere<\/a> out into space.<\/p> When Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, it seems to have passed through something called a plasmoid — a gigantic blob of plasma, essentially — that escaped Uranus and likely pulled a giant gassy cloud of the planet’s fart-like atmosphere<\/a> along with it, Space.com <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>.<\/p> Based on the data Voyager 2 collected as it flew through the planetary flatulence, NASA thinks that the plasmoid itself was about 127,000 miles long and twice as wide, according to Space.com<\/em>. And while the data, first published in August<\/a> in the journal Geophysical Research <\/em>Letters, can give NASA a better understanding of Uranus’ atmosphere, one gas bubble won’t tell them everything.<\/p> “Imagine if one spacecraft just flew through this room and tried to characterize the entire Earth,” NASA researcher Gina DiBraccio said in a new press release<\/a>. “Obviously it’s not going to show you anything about what the Sahara or Antarctica is like.”<\/p> NASA speculates that a similar gas-expelling phenomenon could explain how Mars came to be so barren and dry, but that can’t be known for sure. To learn more, Space.com<\/em> reports, NASA would unfortunately need to send another spacecraft all the way out to Uranus and probe around.<\/p> “It’s why I love planetary science,” DiBraccio said. “You’re always going somewhere you don’t really know.”<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Old gas blob from Uranus found in vintage Voyager 2 data<\/a> [Space.com<\/em>]<\/p> More on Uranus:<\/strong> Uranus Is Unexpectedly Turbulent Right Now<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post NASA Data Shows Something Leaking Out of Uranus<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the rest here: Ayy NASA scientists digging back through decades-old data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft have made an eyebrow-raising discovery: Something\u00a0appeared to have been sucking Uranus\u2019 atmosphere out into space. When Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, it seems to have passed through something called a plasmoid \u2014 a gigantic blob of plasma,\u00a0essentially \u2014 that escaped Uranus and likely pulled a giant gassy cloud of the planet\u2019s fart-like atmosphere along with it, Space.com reports . Cosmic Wind Based on the data Voyager 2 collected as it flew through the planetary flatulence, NASA thinks that the plasmoid itself was about 127,000 miles long and twice as wide, according to Space.com . Continue reading Cosmic Wind<\/h2>
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