Uranus

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1. Story
2. Visited once, by Voyager 2 on 24 January 1986, and never since — the only close observation of the planet that exists. The encounter is unusually difficult because Uranus is tipped roughly on its side, so its moons and rings lie in a plane nearly perpendicular to the spacecraft's approach and the whole system had to be photographed in a few hours rather than swept past over days. Voyager 2 found around ten previously unknown moons, additional rings, and a magnetic field tilted steeply from the rotation axis and offset from the planet's centre — a configuration that no model had anticipated and that is still not fully explained. Not a place on Earth.
3. Knowledge
4. Uranus
5. Connections
6. Voyager 2
7. The Grand Tour alignment
8. Voyager 2 reaches Uranus — the only close encounter ever made
9. Evidence
10. The encounter dates and principal findings at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, including the Jovian ring, the resolved ring structure at Saturn, the tilted and offset Uranian magnetic field and the newly found moons at both ice giants. V55 verification basis: THE PAGES WERE NOT REACHED — science.nasa.gov is blocked by this session's egress proxy and the search budget was exhausted. Everything attributed here is standard mission record from general knowledge; a curator must confirm each encounter date and each count of newly discovered moons against NASA's own pages.