Scientists believe that the ice giant’s feebleness of belts is attached to its magnetic field, reported in The International News
Scientists may have now cracked a continuing puzzle encompassing the ice giant Uranus and its inadequate radiation straps.
“The belts’ feebleness is conceivably associated with the planet’s anxiously inclined and off-kilter magnetic field. However, the magnetic field could be yielding “traffic jams” for particles battering around the world,” reported Space News.
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Distant before Voyager 2 exited the solar system in 2018, the puzzle dates around to the probe’s visiting to Uranus in January 1986.
An interesting fact is that the spacecraft located Uranus’s magnetic field to be unarranged and inclined approximately 60° away from its reel axis. Further, Voyager 2 discovered that the ray belts of Uranus, comprising particles entangled by this magnetic field, are almost 100 times more fragile than indicated.
The latest analysis, established on simulations using Voyager 2, proposes that these two eccentric elements of the ice colossus are associated.
“It has a magnetic field like no other in the solar system. Most planets have strong intrinsic magnetic fields, like Earth, Jupiter and Saturn. They have a very ‘traditional’ magnetic field shape, which is known as a dipole,” lead author Matthew Acevski apprised Space News.
He counted further: “This is the same magnetic field shape as you would expect from your everyday bar magnet. At Uranus, this is not the case; Uranus’ field is highly asymmetric — and it becomes increasingly so closer to the planets’ surface.”
Published in The International News
