Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Uranus' Moon Miranda
Explanation:
NASA's robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed the planet Uranus [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and its moons in 1986. While the cloud tops of Uranus [ http://seds.lpl.ari…] proved to be rather featureless, the surface of Miranda [ http://seds.lpl.ari…], the innermost of Uranus [ http://www.c3.lanl.…]' large moons, showed several interesting features. Voyager 2 passed closer to Miranda [ http://www.c3.lanl.…] than to any Solar System [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] body and hence photographed it with the clearest resolution. Miranda's heavily cratered terrain shows grooves like Jupiter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]'s moon Ganymede [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and several valleys and cliffs. Miranda is made of a roughly equal mix of ice and rock. Miranda was discovered by Gerard Kuiper in 1948.
Credit and Copyright:
NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/], JPL [ http://www.jpl.nasa…], Voyager [ http://vraptor.jpl.…] 2
facet_when:
1986
facet_when:
1948
facet_where:
Ganymede
facet_where:
Arizona
facet_where:
Jupiter
facet_where:
Uranus
facet_where:
Miranda
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_what:
Voyager
facet_what:
Ganymede
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Jupiter
facet_what:
Voyager 2
facet_what:
Uranus
facet_what:
Miranda
facet_what:
moon
facet_when_year:
1948
facet_when_year:
1986
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap951224

Uranus' Moon Miranda
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