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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]
Uranus has five major moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. They range in diameter from 472 km for Miranda to 1578 km for Titania. [21] All these moons are relatively dark objects: their geometrical albedo varies between 30 and 50%, whereas their Bond albedo is between 10 and 23%. [25] Umbriel is the darkest moon and Ariel the ...
Verona Rupes is the tallest known cliff on Miranda, a moon of Uranus, and plausibly holds the record for the highest cliff in the Solar System.It was discovered by the Voyager 2 space probe in January 1986.
Pages in category "Miranda (moon)" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Miranda (moon) (5 P) O. Oberon (moon) (4 P) S. Surface features of Uranus' moons (2 C, 11 P) T. Titania (moon) (1 C, 3 P) U. ... Prospero (moon) Puck (moon) R ...
This is a list of named geological features on Miranda. Craters. Mirandan craters are named after characters in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Crater Coordinate
In 1949, the fifth moon, Miranda, was named by its discoverer, Gerard Kuiper, after a thoroughly mortal character in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Current IAU practice is to name moons after characters from Shakespeare's plays and The Rape of the Lock (although at present only Ariel, Umbriel, and Belinda have names drawn from the latter poem, all ...
Inverness Corona is a prominent geological feature on Uranus's moon Miranda. Located near Miranda's south pole, it is the youngest of three Mirandan features termed coronae—large oval or polygonal regions that contrast with Miranda's older, cratered terrain. [2]: 1 It has a diameter of 234 kilometres (145 mi).