Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Miranda, Chevron, and Alonso
Explanation:
Miranda [ http://www.seds.org…] is a bizarre world which surely had a tempest [ http://the-tech.mit…]uous past. The innermost of the larger Uranian [ http://pds.jpl.nasa…] moons, Miranda is almost 300 miles in diameter and was discovered [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in 1948 by American planetary astronomer Gerard Kuiper [ http://sofia.arc.na…]. Examined very closely by the Voyager 2 spacecraft [ http://vraptor.jpl.…] in 1986, this dark and distant world turned out to be [ http://vraptor.jpl.…] quite a surprise [ http://www.pbm.com/…]. Miranda was found to display [ http://www.seds.org…] a unique, bewildering variety of [ http://www.shakespe…] terrain leading some to suggest that it has been fractured up to 5 times during its evolution. Along with the famous "chevron" feature, the bright V-shaped area just above center, this composite of the highest resolution images of Miranda shows [ http://www.hawastso…] wild juxtapositions of ridges and valleys, older cratered and younger smooth surfaces, and shadowy canyons perhaps 12 miles deep. The large crater (below center) is the 15 mile wide crater Alonso [ http://the-tech.mit…thetempest.dp.html ].
Credit and Copyright:
Voyager Project [ http://vraptor.jpl.…], JPL [ http://www.jpl.nasa…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
keyword:
moon
keyword:
Uranus
keyword:
Miranda
facet_when:
1986
facet_when:
1948
facet_where:
Uranus
facet_where:
Miranda
facet_where:
Sofia
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_what:
Voyager
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Crater
facet_what:
Voyager 2
facet_what:
Uranus
facet_what:
Miranda
facet_when_year:
1948
facet_when_year:
1986
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap990306

Miranda, Chevron, and Alonso
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