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‘Traffic jams’ around Uranus could solve the mystery of its weak radiation belts

In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered Uranus has a strangely weak radiation belt. Now, researchers think this could be linked to “traffic jams” caused by the world’s warped magnetic field.

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