What is Miranda?

Miranda is a month of uranium, its smallest and innermost. Miranda has about 1/8 of our moon size, 290 miles (235.8 km), but still spherical. Miranda is unusual among the months of the Solar System in that the most obvious features are not craters, but her jagged and harsh terrain, including a cliff over three kilometers high. Miranda looks similar to a golf ball if he could look if he put himself in a blender. This month he first discovered Gerard Kuiper in 1948.

Miranda looks just like a blurry dot from the ground and space -based binoculars, but in January 1986 the voyager 2 close to the flying, which gave us detailed images that are now standard for the Miranda sections in Astronomies of Books.

Miranda is the most geologically most active moon in the Urana system and has been much more active in the past. In addition to huge cliffs, it is crossed by numerous canyons and upwellings called Coronae. The probable source of geological activity Miranda is Tidal OTEfloating caused by eccentric orbit.

Miranda is unusual that it is one of the only bodies in the solar system with a longer pole diameter than the equatorial diameter. This is probably due to its intense geological activity and internal move in the past. Another theory is that Miranda has suffered a huge impact in the past that caused him to be blown on pieces, which then reformed from the gravitational attraction. It is said that his ridges have a "Sawtooth" formula.

In four degrees, Mirand's orbital slope is about 10 times larger than other uranium satellites and is quite unusual for the body that orbits so close to its superior planet.

Miranda has an escape speed of 0.19 km/s or 425 mph. A quick beam or personal plane could be drained into space if it had an atmosphere.

Some planetary scientists have Called Miranda “The strangest moon of SLUnion systems. ”