Moons · Moon of Uranus

Miranda

129,390 km from Uranus · Light crosses it in 0.0016 seconds

Across

472 km

Vs Earth

3.7% of Earth

Mass

6.4 × 10¹⁹ kg

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About

Miranda is the smallest of Uranus's five large moons and one of the strangest-looking worlds known: a patchwork of grooved terrain, giant cliffs and smooth plains, as if it had been shattered and pieced back together.

Its cliff Verona Rupes may be the tallest in the Solar System, around 20 km.

At a glance

Size	472 km
Orbits	Uranus, every 1.4 days
Discovered	1948, Gerard Kuiper
Visited	Voyager 2, 1986

Did you know

1. Verona Rupes, a cliff about 20 km high, may be the tallest in the Solar System.
2. A rock dropped from the top would take about 12 minutes to fall.
3. Only the southern half has ever been photographed.

Real photo

• Miranda's patchwork face, from Voyager 2 — NASA/JPL-Caltech · source