🌙 Moon
Miranda
A patchwork moon of Uranus with enormous cliffs.
- Size
- 470 km across, 4% as wide as Earth
- Goes round Uranus
- every 33.9 hours
- Discovered
- 1948, by Gerard Kuiper
Did you know?
- Its cliff Verona Rupes is about 20 km tall, one of the tallest known in the solar system.
- Only one spacecraft has ever visited it: Voyager 2, in 1986.
Photographed or visited by
Voyager 2
The only spacecraft that has ever visited Uranus and Neptune.
Compare Miranda with EarthSide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of MirandaStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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