18K views · 4.2K reactions | This is real data from Voyager 2 as it swept past Uranus in 1986. The probe revealed a sideways-tilted world, faint rings, deep cold and storms barely visible in the planet’s pale atmosphere. No spacecraft has returned since. Follow @spaceeves #Voyager2 #Uranus #NASA #SpaceEves | SpaceEve | Facebook

👉The Only Close Visit to Uranus Ever Made On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 made history by becoming the first—and still the only—spacecraft to fly past Uranus. After traveling through the outer solar system for nine years, it passed just 81,500 kilometers above the planet’s cloud tops, giving humanity its first close look at this distant ice giant. Before Voyager 2’s arrival, Uranus appeared as little more than a blue-green dot through telescopes on Earth. That brief flyby changed everythi