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The two innermost moons, Cordelia and Ophelia, are shepherds of Uranus's ε ring, whereas the small moon Mab is a source of Uranus's outermost μ ring. [12] There may be two additional small (2–7 km in radius) undiscovered shepherd moons located about 100 km exterior to Uranus's α and β rings .
NASA released new images Monday that show Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, in greater detail than ever before. The new images of Uranus were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and ...
NASA has just released new images of Uranus. Captured by JWST, the images show incredible details of the planet and its surrounding rings and moons.
Rings, moons, storms and a bright polar cap all shine in a new image of Uranus captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. ... captured all of the facets often missing in other telescope images ...
Major moons of Uranus in order of increasing distance (left to right), at their proper relative sizes and albedos. From left to right, they are Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. (collage of Voyager 2 photographs) Uranus along with its five major moons and nine inner moons as taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam.
So far the only close-up images of Titania have been from the Voyager 2 probe, which photographed the moon during its flyby of Uranus in January 1986. Since the closest distance between Voyager 2 and Titania was only 365,200 km (226,900 mi), [ 44 ] the best images of this moon have a spatial resolution of about 3.4 km (only Miranda and Ariel ...
This discovery image shows the new Uranian moon S/2023 U1 using the Magellan telescope on November 4, 2023. Uranus (upper left) is just off the field of view.
Miranda, also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at McDonald Observatory in Texas, and named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. [9] Like the other large moons of Uranus, Miranda orbits close to its planet's ...