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

[Admin]

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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[pennyturtle]

You may wish to edit the line "...Uranus is also only one of two planets in the solar system (the other is Venus) that rotates around the sun in the opposite direction to all the other planets." I believe you mean they are the only two planets to rotate around their axis, not the sun, in the opposite direction to the other planets.

 

[Classical Motion]

Wind a solenoid around a cone. One pole will be small and strong and the other wide and weak.

Different size and speed and charge density wind bands, might do the same.