Uranus' Moon Miranda
			
		
		
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			NASA's robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed the planet 
Uranus and its moons in
1986.  While the cloud tops of 
Uranus proved to be rather featureless, the surface of 
Miranda, the 
innermost of 
Uranus' large moons, showed several interesting features. 
Voyager 2 passed closer to 
Miranda than to any 
Solar System body and hence
photographed it with the clearest resolution.  Miranda's heavily cratered
terrain shows grooves like 
Jupiter's moon 
Ganymede and
several valleys and cliffs. Miranda is made of a roughly equal mix of ice
and rock.  Miranda was discovered by Gerard Kuiper in 1948.